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A Quick & Dirty Report Dropped into a Staples today to pickup a few of the Made in Bazil composition notebooks, but none left. Last year I bought a stack of them, and I only needed a couple more. Guess the students got them all. There was a pitiful excuse for a composition notebook (one) with a plastic cover, cleverly designed to slip and slide on whatever surface you choose to write upon - and made in Egypt. I looked at everything on the shelves and picked up a Staples Sustainable Earth Sugarcane-based Notebook (wire-bound). The small size - 9 1/2 X 6 inches. What attracted me to them is that they have HARD thick covers and an insert with a pocket on each side. I can write on this in uncomfortable positions sitting in a meeting with no table, standing. Much stiffer cover than the composition notebooks. And equally sturdy wire binding. The printed material does not even mention it, but the pages have fine perforations - also sturdy, so they do not tear unless you tell them to tear. And the paper worked well with PR Midnight Blues in a TWSB Eco (f): no feathering, spread or bleeding. Show through? Yes, but not so much that I expect it to prevent me from using both sides. Negatives? Cost - $3.95 US. Wire binding makes it not as easy to put side by side on a shelf, if that is important to you. Eco-y kraft paper-looking cover, if that would bother you. I think it will grow on me. Anyone else have these notebooks in this or the larger size? How do you like them after using them for a while?