BookFactory Engineering Notebook, 96 Pages, 4x4 Quad Ruled, 8x10, Smyth Sewn Hardbound

My son needs this for his engineering class, and loves it.

Seemed like an expensive notebook until I had the product in hand. High quality paper and very sturdy hardcover. Professional and consistent throughout

Initial review 5/30/22 I’ve been using engineering notebooks for the last 10 years and found this notebook recently. I’m not a huge fan of spiral notebooks and prefer book styles like this, so decided to give this brand a try. I like the overall design and like the fact it has a table of contents. The grid layout on the pages makes it easy for drawings and tables. I downgraded due to the condition of the hardcover. It looks like there is a lot of storage or handling damage. It was delivered with the exterior having scuff marks and scratches along the binding and top of the book. The pages seem to be intact and are not impacted by the exterior damage.

I'm a chemical engineering student, my hobby is art so I have a passion for paper and books, so I'm pretty critical of this book. The organization is amazing, it allows you to easily find a page that has a specific subject. My only issue is the paper is kinda thin, in class we are taught that when u keep an engineering not book, you always write in pen and such that, though here I noticed the pens I like to use leak through the paper. Other than than u think the book is great.

It's working well as a tactile rubber ducky while I program (yes I know it's a book, google "programmers and rubber ducks" or something like that to understand what I mean). Especially while working from home, I need to be able to write with my hand if I can't talk to a co-worker.

I'm quite happy with this book. The cover is elegant and the binding is durable, so it makes a welcome addition to the bookcases in your office, study, workshop, or laboratory. The pages are thick enough that bleed-through is a minimal concern, and they take ink well without smudging. I particularly like some of the extra features. The table of contents pages is an excellent addition. The book also includes guidelines for documenting activities if you need to do so for legal or procedural reasons as well as space for witnesses to sign your entries if necessary. While those features are irrelevant to my own purposes for the book, it's nevertheless a nice inclusion for professionals or students. If you're looking for an engineering or laboratory notebook (or, indeed, any notebook with grid paper) that isn't constructed with a cheap binding, this one comes highly recommended.

This notebook came just as expected. The seam is nice, I don’t feel like this will fall apart. The book itself is smaller than some lab notebooks so be aware of that if you have size requirements. I’ve bought about six of these from various vendors on Amazon and they all have held up to the test of mechanical engineering labs. Good enough for me.

I have used various gridded notebooks over the last 20 years (lined for the 20 years before that), some quite big and heavy and others wire-bound and flimsy. This notebook is thinner and smaller than some that I have used, but means it takes less space, but still hardbound so it is less likely to be bent. The paper takes a quality ink pen quite well. The book has a lot of extras that I do not need, which may be useful for someone more organized than myself concerning inventions and patents. Yet I find I am far more organized than most. I bought two-- one for this academic year and one for next academic year. I would buy again in the fall of 2022. I like the gridded paper for scale drawings (plans and sections), for making tables, and it helps with the block architectural printing I use. I do not know if the paper is acid free archival paper. The book becomes a partial record of the critiques, evaluations, projects, plans, travels, essential notes, accomplishments, ideas, and activities within the academic year. I have a recored written on about 40 such books during my career. 92 pages is enough pages for me in an academic year. If you do things in a similar manner, this is a useful notebook to purchase.