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College rule?
Just an idle muse question.
The packages of paper cut and punched for three-ring notebook binders for school children (and old children like me, gathering cheap scratch paper in the back to school sales). -- The pages are lined, and one of the two sizes of lines is labelled as "college ruled." Why is that? Is ther an assumption that, by the time one hiots college, that our handwriting will become smaller? I have a shelf of ring binders, with my class notes, one binder per semester. I don't know why I even took notes, because I ddon't gho back to them. And I don't know why I still save them all 30 years later! But it is interesting to go bacck to them occasionally an notice how my handwriting mutated or evolved over the years. (as well as my note taking styles). Sometimes larger, sometimes smaller. But I can't really say that my handwriting got progressively smaller the farther along I progressed in classes. Do the manufacturers just assume that college students write smaller than younger ones? Or that we need more lines per page? Oh well, nothing significant. Talk amongst yourselves. |
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"JimL" wrote in message om... Just an idle muse question. The packages of paper cut and punched for three-ring notebook binders for school children (and old children like me, gathering cheap scratch paper in the back to school sales). -- The pages are lined, and one of the two sizes of lines is labelled as "college ruled." Why is that? Is ther an assumption that, by the time one hiots college, that our handwriting will become smaller? I have a shelf of ring binders, with my class notes, one binder per semester. I don't know why I even took notes, because I ddon't gho back to them. And I don't know why I still save them all 30 years later! But it is interesting to go bacck to them occasionally an notice how my handwriting mutated or evolved over the years. (as well as my note taking styles). Sometimes larger, sometimes smaller. But I can't really say that my handwriting got progressively smaller the farther along I progressed in classes. Do the manufacturers just assume that college students write smaller than younger ones? Or that we need more lines per page? Oh well, nothing significant. Talk amongst yourselves. JimL, This is not nothing significant. In fact, I have often wondered if there ever was a standard for these rulings. I am not sure where you are located but it could just be that it is assumed that college users would want economy and have the ability to cramp as many lines of notes as one can on a single page. In order to do this, users will have to opt for fine point BP, FP or whatever their preference. For some time, I have gotten used to 18 points of ruled paper. But lately, my preference have leaned towards 20 points. I guess, my writing has become bolder -- Best regards, Free Citizen Fountain Pen Network A pen site run by the Pen Community http://pagesperso.laposte.net/fpnet |
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"Free Citizen" wrote: | This is not nothing significant. In fact, I have often wondered if there | ever was a standard for these rulings. I am not sure where you are located | but it could just be that it is assumed that college users would want | economy and have the ability to cramp as many lines of notes as one can on a | single page. In order to do this, users will have to opt for fine point BP, | FP or whatever their preference. For some time, I have gotten used to 18 | points of ruled paper. But lately, my preference have leaned towards 20 | points. I guess, my writing has become bolder Or, like me, thine eyes hath grown weaker... john cline ii, who says you could just use orange ink....NAH! |
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JimL wrote:
Just an idle muse question. The packages of paper cut and punched for three-ring notebook binders for school children (and old children like me, gathering cheap scratch paper in the back to school sales). -- The pages are lined, and one of the two sizes of lines is labelled as "college ruled." Why is that? Is ther an assumption that, by the time one hiots college, that our handwriting will become smaller? I have a shelf of ring binders, with my class notes, one binder per semester. I don't know why I even took notes, because I ddon't gho back to them. And I don't know why I still save them all 30 years later! But it is interesting to go bacck to them occasionally an notice how my handwriting mutated or evolved over the years. (as well as my note taking styles). Sometimes larger, sometimes smaller. But I can't really say that my handwriting got progressively smaller the farther along I progressed in classes. Do the manufacturers just assume that college students write smaller than younger ones? Or that we need more lines per page? Oh well, nothing significant. Talk amongst yourselves. You have to call it something. I think this is a way for parents to see, "Oh, they aren't selling this paper to my third grader." The paper makers use it to NOT sell paper to the common, unwashed masses. CH |
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"JimL" wrote in message om... Just an idle muse question. The packages of paper cut and punched for three-ring notebook binders for school children (and old children like me, gathering cheap scratch paper in the back to school sales). -- The pages are lined, and one of the two sizes of lines is labelled as "college ruled." Why is that? Is ther an assumption that, by the time one hiots college, that our handwriting will become smaller? I have a shelf of ring binders, with my class notes, one binder per semester. I don't know why I even took notes, because I ddon't gho back to them. And I don't know why I still save them all 30 years later! But it is interesting to go bacck to them occasionally an notice how my handwriting mutated or evolved over the years. (as well as my note taking styles). Sometimes larger, sometimes smaller. But I can't really say that my handwriting got progressively smaller the farther along I progressed in classes. Do the manufacturers just assume that college students write smaller than younger ones? Or that we need more lines per page? Oh well, nothing significant. Talk amongst yourselves. I dunno 'bout the rest of what you posted but, college rule cramps my style and I've only bought it when desperate which is like, never, after my first package. -- ~~Bluesea~~ Spam is great in musubi but not in email. Please take out the trash before sending a direct reply. |
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Bluesea wrote:
I dunno 'bout the rest of what you posted but, college rule cramps my style and I've only bought it when desperate which is like, never, after my first package. I don't like the school brand papers sold, but when I was in school I preferred the college ruled paper because I could squeeze more notes onto each page. Theses days I prefer Komtrack, Circa, and Clairfontaine notebook papers. Komtrack is a luxury paper, it's the thickest. I like the Circa system and the big empty margin space and I adore my leather Circa notebooks, which I got at a bargain basement price of $22 during the recent sale. Clairfontaine is slick and like a slightly cheaper thinner version Komtrack, but I like their French-ruled paper that you can write on lengthwise or widthwise even though it is not actually a grid. I think the Clairfontaine has a pinkish cast to the paper, at least the French-ruled seems to. Of those, Circa seems to be college-ruled one and the others fall in between the big baby ruled and college ruled. Today I am writing two snail mails on my Amalfi Amalfitana paper and I hope those people realize how privileged they are to receive it! LOL For such decadently expensive paper, it's not as welcoming to fountain pens as one would think. On that, I used a felt tip MB Scenium pen and it was just right. I enjoyed using that thin pen. I write better with thin pens than those thick pens (fountain pens or others) that you guys all seem to like. Nancy |
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"Nancy Handy" wrote in message
... Theses days I prefer Komtrack, Circa, and Clairfontaine notebook papers. Komtrack is a luxury paper, it's the thickest. I like the Circa system and the big empty margin space and I adore my leather Circa notebooks, which I got at a bargain basement price of $22 during the recent sale. we think alike - though I want to get the punch and use my own paper - at times i'm finding that even Levenger paper can be a bit too slick... But I got the slate blue Junior for $17 (with S&H, $23) - can't beat that with a stick! All these years of wanting one but never feeling I could justify the cost. Now it goes everywhere with me at home and out. Have to ask for the punch for Christmas.. :P k |
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"Nancy Handy" wrote in message ... Bluesea wrote: I dunno 'bout the rest of what you posted but, college rule cramps my style and I've only bought it when desperate which is like, never, after my first package. I don't like the school brand papers sold, but when I was in school I preferred the college ruled paper because I could squeeze more notes onto each page. Theses days I prefer Komtrack, Circa, and Clairfontaine notebook papers. Komtrack is a luxury paper, it's the thickest. I like the Circa system and the big empty margin space and I adore my leather Circa notebooks, which I got at a bargain basement price of $22 during the recent sale. Clairfontaine is slick and like a slightly cheaper thinner version Komtrack, but I like their French-ruled paper that you can write on lengthwise or widthwise even though it is not actually a grid. I think the Clairfontaine has a pinkish cast to the paper, at least the French-ruled seems to. Of those, Circa seems to be college-ruled one and the others fall in between the big baby ruled and college ruled. Today I am writing two snail mails on my Amalfi Amalfitana paper and I hope those people realize how privileged they are to receive it! LOL For such decadently expensive paper, it's not as welcoming to fountain pens as one would think. On that, I used a felt tip MB Scenium pen and it was just right. I enjoyed using that thin pen. I write better with thin pens than those thick pens (fountain pens or others) that you guys all seem to like. It seems to me that women prefer thinner instruments because their hands are smaller. As for correspondence paper, I'm stuck on Crane. But, that's way too expensive for drafts and the binder paper that I get for $1.93 for 200 sheets or free w/ purchase is the most I'm willing to pay for paper that I use and discard although I do keep a yellow mini-legal pad with a few index cards in a mini-portfolio, rarely a steno pad, in the car for on-the-fly observances. -- ~~Bluesea~~ Spam is great in musubi but not in email. Please take out the trash before sending a direct reply. |
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"Bluesea" wrote in message
I dunno 'bout the rest of what you posted but, college rule cramps my style and I've only bought it when desperate which is like, never, after my first package. How I got to observing this difference is -- legal pads are so expensive just for "junk" drafts and notes. I found a nice acrylic clipboard with a flat wire clip, and then I stock up on school children's notebook paper during the summer back to school sales. Heck, 19 cents a 150 sheet pack, can't beat that. I buy a dozen packs a year. (plus one or two cases of medium and high quality paper for the computer printer). With the lines, for my rough and fast writing, I often use every other line even with the regular spacing. The smaller spacing caused a mini-dillemma: every third, or alternat two, three, two, three. Another advantage of the notebook paper -- I use them in sketching out my lecture notes / outlines, and they are already punched to go into my (coincidentaally) notebook that holds my lecture notes. What a coincidence! Of course, my next quandary, and irritating factor: Why are these sheets smaller than the 8.5 x 11 inch standard on all other paper? Somme day the world is going to revolve around me -- and I am already making my list. |
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