Product Information Number of Sheets: 60 Sheet Size: 9' x 11' Cover Color: Blue Miscellaneous Recycled: No Recycled Content: 0% Post-consumer-waste%: 0% Assembly Required: No Country of Origin: VietnamEnjoy a premium note-taking experience on paper made from stone. Stone Paper Notebook provides a velvety smooth writing surface that is moisture-resistant and tear-resistant. Ink glides across the page and won't show through. Each sheet is college-ruled with 9/32' spacing that is ideal for note-taking.
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Top of each sheet includes a date header and purpose field for better organizing. Every sheet is perforated for easy tear-out. Durable paper and strong double-wire binding make this the ultimate notebook for travel and adventure. Notebook includes 60 sheets.Product Information Number of Sheets: 60 Sheet Size: 9' x 11' Cover Color: Blue Miscellaneous Recycled: No Recycled Content: 0% Post-consumer-waste%: 0% Assembly Required: No Country of Origin: Vietnam Warnings:proposition 65 reasons:titanium dioxide, other chemicalsThis product contains chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer andbirth defects or other reproductive harm.
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Uncommonly smooth writing experience; Perfect for your next adventure; Durable paper made from stone; Paper resists moisture, tears and bleedthrough. The Oxford stone paper notebook gives you a smooth writing surface that puts fun back in penmanship. With its compact size this notebook fits in small handbags and zippered portfolios for easy note-taking.
Oxford makes paper products (sheets and notebooks) in 'Stone Paper' which is marketed as a greener alternative to paper products, as it uses no tree products. As a result, this paper is very water resistant and much more durable.I wasn't able to find many sources for it online, but many Walgreens have them in stock. They are out of stock online, but local stores may have them.Here's a sample link: my store, I was able to pick up a 60 sheet, spiral bound notebook (with plastic front and back) with sheets measuring approximately 5-1/8' x 8-1/4' if you measure the perforated sheet, or 5-1/2' x 8-1/4' if you measure all the usable real estate before the wire spiral would interfere with your writing. The price for this sized notebook was $3.99. They had a spot for a different sized one, but they were out of stock.
I'm sure they make multiple sizes.Testing it out, I wrote on the paper with a Sharpie, and a variety of Bic, PaperMate, Fisher, etc. Ballpoints, gels, and pencils. Also wrote on a piece of Rite-in-the-Rain and a piece of regular copy paper as sort of a control.Dry markings which were then immersed in water for 1 hour showed the same amount of 'bleed' as Rite-in-the-Rain. In other words, if you wrote with an ink that tends to bleed out in water, it did so on any type of paper. Pencil marks, of course, did not bleed on either Stone Paper or Rite-in-the-Rain, nor did the Sharpie nor several of the more waterproof ballpoints.
With any ballpoint, bleeding was minimal and all marks remained legible.Next I tested writing while the page was under running water from the sink, as well as standing 'wetness' (paper on bottom of the sink, after a thorough soaking). Just like Right-in-the-Rain, the water doesn't bead off and run like a waxed car, it just sort of coats it and doesn't absorb it and get soggy like normal paper.
I was able to write easily with ballpoints and pencils on the Stone Paper, while there was a slight 'bleed-off' while writing with the pens, as some ink would get dispersed by the water while being transferred onto the page by the ballpoint. Still, marks remained legible and performance was identical to the Rite-in-the-Rain. Pencils of course worked fine.Now the tear test. Wet or dry, tearing the Stone Paper had the same level of difficulty. It was almost like tearing plastic as it doesn't really rip, but eventually pulls apart after a slight feeling of stretching.So overall, it seems that for the $3.99 Stone Paper I ended up with a larger notebook with similar performance than a similar Rite-in-theRain which is about $11-$12 for a 5x7 book with the same number of pages. My proposed test would be to soak it, sit on it, let it dry and see if the pages seperate.When I was more obsesive about RintheR notebooks, I kept them for a while, and loosing the information in the notebook was more critical than actually using them in the rain.
Now, I'm a whole lot more likely to just transfer the data to my blackberry, so the value of the stored content is much less. For a police officer of surveyer, he may never get into that position. I've also used an aluminum clip board as a double shidded sheet of paper with a sharpie. Erase latter with acetone. When people look at you weird, claim the alternative is shreading and then pulping and entire notebook to keep NSA from getting their hands on it.As to the intended market, sometimes you have to think what's the 'enviromental' goal, paper is renewable, recyclable and compostable, 2 of the 3 are features we try to add to plastic.
I don't see where substutuing plastic for paper is a good thing. OTOH, white paper (and paper plants in general) tend to produce a lot of chemical waste, while plastics and petrochemical plants then to be clean.Are we sure OPEC isn't behind Stone Paper?BTW, there are no cheap sources for Rinthe R stuff. I've purchased from surveying companies (Ben Meadows, FSI), Tactical Suppliers and even the NASA KSC employee gift shop.Seriousally if this stuff works, I wonder if they will put it in legal pads, or in bound books.There's a wallgreens within walking distance of my hotel.