Oxford A4 192 Page Hardback Casebound Notebook Assorted Colours, Pack of 5

I found these to be a real bargain for the price! While you are unable to pick and choose which colours you would like the actual quality of the notebooks is delightful! Solid and weighty to the touch they are bright, shiny and new to look at so make you feel good already! Combining good qualityhardboard covers with well-made blue springs these notebooks are ideal for students or anyone whose writing books need to 'take a bit of a bashing'. They open easily and provide a nice, firm, flat writing base to write upon. They do not get bent in time nor do used pages curl up and start to clog up the wire spines like many other similar notebooks do. The paper itself has a smooth, silky feel to it and is effortless to write on. It may not possibly be quite so good for fountain pen use because of its silkiness but as I do not use a fountain pen that is only a guess. For all biro or pencil users, however, these are ace and the pages hold into position well and do not 'move about' like they can do on cheaper wire spined products. The pages themselves are of decent thickness and a nice, clear white without being too overpoweringly 'clean' looking. I am not 'techie' so I cannot explain the other symbols on each page that I presume are for use with mobile phones (I do not use a mobile) but that info you can gain in the product description here. Overall, I am delighted with these notebooks and will definitely buy them again as and when I need them. Just to clear up any confusion regarding the amount of pages. I counted 80 sheets per book making 160 SIDES of paper rather than pages - depending on how you interpret the word 'page'. Me being old school I would normally take 160 pages to mean 160 sheets of paper... Whatever, these are great value and great quality and I thoroughly recommend you buy them!

Oxford notebooks and notepads in various sizes and formats have been used since being first introduced to the brand about 2-3 years ago. Most are or were wirebound, mostly at the left edge but a small number were of the 'reporter's pad' type and bound at the top. Other than a limited few, none were casebound aka hardbacks. These "Oxford Touch A5 192 Page Hardback Casebound Notebook Assorted Colours, Pack of 5" (mostly pink in this instance) are casebound and feature the same high quality 'Optik' 90gsm paper as is used throughout their ranges. Oxford's pricing is always modest but not 'cheap' while the inherent quality of the paper is very close to that used by more expensive Continental and Japanese brands of which some examples are several times the price of Oxford's nearest equivalent. There are reasons to use a casebound notebook, and benefits to be gained, rather than one with card or semi-rigid plastic covers. Rigid covers allow improved writing support and offer better protection for the pages within. The written contents can be considered permanent; page removal and filing are not intended secondary functions. They could be used by those writers who prefer to use long-hand manuscripts, decry use of typewriters or computers and the word-processing software that others may use. A writer employed by a magazine publisher routinely used casebound volumes for his monthly articles. The paper surface is exceptionally smooth and very fountain pen friendly. The pages have a wider than standard 3cm margin which make the usable width appear narrow. Given sufficient time to dry as inks vary dramatically in their drying times, the result is not only smudge-free but also inclined not to show any signs of feathering across the surface or bleeding from one surface through to the other. Consequently, legibility is always high and allows both sides of the paper to be used and later read. The slightly higher weight of the paper (relative to the more common 80gsm) may help in this respect but it is also the structure of the paper. Although casebound, the books open easily and the pages mostly lie flat although the open ones may slightly arc upwards. Again, the additional weight of the paper helps maintain flatness.

...but you can't make him revise. Unless, that is, you find a different way to make it a bit more fun. Our son is not a fan of homework or revision, much like me at the same age. But he does have ambition and we needed to find a way to make things work if he's to achieve it. Half the battle is getting him to take decent notes in the first place, the other half is him having things easily accessible forever after without needing to carry a separate notebook for each subject in his already full-to-bursting schoolbag. So we got him these notebooks. The key thing here is that there is a companion app, and once he's done with a page he just scans it into the app, where he can sort it according to subject. It means he now has halfway useful notes to look back on at the end of the year, and never has to fear an errant drink, yogurt, wet rugby sock (or whatever other items you might risk finding) destroying his hard work. There's a level of gamification that seems to work well here, and it means that I have greater peace of mind from buying these as required. Mostly, my secondary objective is achieved, because studies show writing things out longhand is a much better way of making the information log in your brain than either listening to audio or typing the same information. As for the notebooks themselves, they're the quality I expect from this brand and are fine used with a fountain pen, without ink bleeding through to the page beyond. Well worth the money to keep our son engaged and better prepared at the end of the academic year.

I like these notebooks except for one thing - the pages inside some of have a waviness as if the books have been stored somewhere damp. Not all of the but 3 out of the 2x3 books I ordered. A good product spoiled. They come shrink wrapped so it happens before this I'm guessing. Otherwise, good paper and colourful hard covers - good for colour coding although colours sent are random.

Great product and service

I bought these for using in the lab. They're casebound so you can't rip out pages easily and they're hardback so can survive getting thrown around. Thick paper so a liquid ink pen doesn't soak through. All in all a good quality product. Definitely on the expensive side but when you need this specific type of book these are the best ones I've found.

These books are perfect for studying. The paper is really nice to write on and great quality. Very sturdy and dont bend which is a nightmare with alot of note books. The app is easy to use once you figure it out which isn't hard to do. Writing on both sides of a page is great because theres no print from writing on the on one side to the other. I do highly recommend these. Definitely worth the money

My daughter loves these books and they are not available easily so she was glad to find them on here. They are Excellent quality and light weight. They were reasonably priced as well

Cuadernos de A5 (que es el mismo tamaño que medio folio de A4), fantásticos y súper prácticos para todo aquel que guste de escribir a mano. La portada parece estar hecha de un toque suave y el grosor de la libreta es como la de otras que he comprado más caras en otros sitios. Vienen en paquete de 5, aunque los colores no los puedes elegir. Aun así, me parecen perfectas tanto para uno mismo, como para regalar. Compraré más cuando las acabe de llenar. Muy contento con la compra.

Muy mal embalado. En una simple bolsa de papel, llegaron con todas las esquinas golpeadas y dobladas al ser cuadernos de tapas duras. Es la segunda vez que los compro ya sabía que venían 3. Sigue habiendo el mismo error que en mi primera compra....pone que son 5....sólo al entrar en la descripción de ve que son 3 unidades.

Ich hätte vom Bild her erwartet, von jeder Farbe eines zu bekommen. Dem war leider nicht so, sondern ich bekam 3 orange und 2 gelbe. (Ich hätte mir natürlich genau die anderen Farben gewünscht...). Einen Hinweis, dass die Lieferung "sortiert" (also eben nicht immer von jeder Farbe ein Buch) erfolgt, fehlte leider als ich bestellte. Vielleicht kann man das ergänzen, liebes Amazon? :) Die Bücher an sich sind wie erwartet, gute Verarbeitung und wie beschrieben.

Il y a écrit 5 cahiers mais on n'en reçoit que 3

These are a great size for my work and home use. I love the hard covering and backing. It is very sturdy.