Measure carefully every particle that lingers in my memory. Weigh it. Sift it. Suck it out of the corners. Till it sits idly ...

Dog-eared and covered in ballpoint doodles, the humble composition notebook has been a mainstay of teenager knapsacks for the better part of the last century. And not just students love them.

Composition notebooks are not great notebooks. Their covers fray, ink bleeds through their whisper-thin pages, and it’s next to impossible to get them to lie flat. But designers and artists love them ...

Five Star notebooks were probably your immediate upgrade from Mead’s Composition notebooks. You can break up ideas or topics among each section, and the pages are surprisingly good at preventing ink ...