J. HALPERN
Comentado en los Estados Unidos el 4 de marzo de 2021
These are not the same Tops steno books from a year or two ago. I have to hand-separate each & every one of the pages from its neighbor in order to use/flip the pages. What a waste of my time. Other than that, the books are good.
Bob Parmenter
Comentado en los Estados Unidos el 8 de mayo de 2015
Kind of pricey for a notepad but the 20 lb paper makes it practical to write on the backside of each page without annoying bleed through. So I guess you get twice your writing capacity compared to other thin-paper pads. Nice stiff cardboard backing for comfortable writing when you're not at a table or desk. And there's a frosty acetate covering on top for added protection from drink spillage or the elements. In the mundane world of steno pad-ism, this would be king. Very highly recommended.
Chuck Hall
Comentado en los Estados Unidos el 12 de enero de 2015
Finally! A steno pad that does not let the ink bleed when you write on it.When I use my favorite ball point ink pens on many of the steno pads the ink bleeds on the writing side making the lines broader than they should be. Furthermore, the ink bleeds through the page so badly that you can't write on the backside and read the writing easily. This is not a problem with the TOPS Docket Gold steno pad.There might be products which make good use of post consumer paper products but writing pads using ink are not it.The pages are heavy weight 20 lb. paper which provide a firm writing surface but the 100 pages made the pad a bit thick - approx. 7/16 inch overall and a tad heavy.It has a really stiff back cardboard which is good but it has a translucent plastic front cover versus the usual opaque front cover on most pads.The wire spiral has a unique design which prevents the wire from unraveling.I really like the fact that the paper doesn't bleed when I write on it with my pens and if you take a lot of notes then this is the pad for you.
Dee
Comentado en los Estados Unidos el 26 de abril de 2015
Things have changed so much in the paper industry of late - it's become very difficult to find what used to be standard quality paper products! Other brands of steno note books have gone to such thin and flimsy paper that writing on both sides is impossible as it bleeds or shows thru the other side, making clear and easy record keeping illegible- almost like writing on toilet paper with durability to match! These Tops notebooks have excellent quality and weight paper and would be perfect except for the perforated top edge which tears easily upon repeated use. I use them for recoding budget info so I don't need to remove pages for my purposes. I use them frequently and with only a few repeated uses the perforations separate along the top. So now I have to ad scotch tape across the top of the pages to keep my record books intact. I never had that problem with just the spiral bound books in the past but the flimsy paper quality has become impossible! I'm older and " if it aint broke don't fix it" still makes perfect sense to me....So it's now a trade off for me, between pages that tear off unwantedly, or pages so thin they bleed thru and wrinkle so that records can't be neat, stored and accessed without incident? So with the use if scotch tape as a reinforcement, these are the best quality paper and weight I've found. The firm plastic outer cover is very nice and ads stability most of the others no longer have as well!
Lars Bergstrom
Comentado en los Estados Unidos el 8 de diciembre de 2012
If you're a fan of either fountain pens or the larger-sized gel ink (e.g., Pilot G2 at 0.7), you've probably experienced the poor paper quality issues with cheap steno pads and even Moleskine notebooks. The paper in this book is very nice and smooth to write on and does not have the problems with smudging that many other notebooks have.Certainly, the Rhodia paper is a step above this, but at a small fraction of the price and if you prefer to avoid the "hipster notebook" look (particularly of the orange Rhodias), these steno pads are great.