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    Notebook

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    This article is about the writing pad. For the notebook computer, see laptop. For
    other uses, see Notebook (disambiguation).
    "Notepad" redirects here. For the Windows program, see Microsoft Notepad. For
    other uses, see Notepad (disambiguation).

    Notebooks

    A notebook (also known as a notepad, writing pad, drawing pad, or legal pad) is a


    book or stack of paper pages that are often ruled and used for purposes such as
    recording notes or memoranda, other writing, drawing or scrapbooking.

    Contents

     1History
     1.1Early history
     1.2Legal pad
     2Binding and cover
     3Preprinting
     4Uses
     5Electronic successors
     6See also
     7References

    History[edit]
    Early history[edit]
    During the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, notebooks were often made by hand at
    home by drawing on them into gatherings that were then bound at a later date. The
    pages were blank and every notekeeper had to make ruled lines across the paper.
    Making and keeping notebooks was such an important information management
    technique that children learned how to do in school.[1]
    Legal pad[edit]
    Legal pad and pencil

    According to a legend, Thomas W. Holley of Holyoke, Massachusetts, invented the


    legal pad around the year 1888 when he innovated the idea to collect all the sortings,
    various sorts of sub-standard paper scraps from various factories, and stitch them
    together in order to sell them as pads at an affordable and fair price. In about 1900,
    the latter then evolved into the modern, traditionally yellow legal pad when a local
    judge requested for a margin to be drawn on the left side of the paper. This was the
    first legal pad.[2] The only technical requirement for this type of stationery to be
    considered a true "legal pad" is that it must have margins of 1.25 inches (3.17
    centimeters) from the left edge. Here, the margin, also known as down lines,[3] is
    room used to write notes or comments. Legal pads usually have a gum binding at the
    top instead of a spiral or stitched binding.
    In 1902, J.A. Birchall of Birchalls, a Launceston, Tasmania, Australia-based
    stationery shop, decided that the cumbersome method of selling writing paper in
    folded stacks of "quires" (four sheets of paper or parchment folded to form eight
    leaves) was inefficient. As a solution, he glued together a stack of halved sheets of
    paper, supported by a sheet of cardboard, creating what he called the "Silver City
    Writing Tablet".[4][5]

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