How come lab notebooks are ridiculously expensive? Also, I guess most notebooks are slightly bigger than composition notebooks
I'm tempted to make a spreadsheet template or PDF. It's pretty silly to spend a lot of money on a lab notebook when you can print a few grid pages and bind the book yourself
Current status
@cypnk I like very small grids so I printed out in landscape and made some signatures for an initial trial binding to see how it feels.
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@somethingeloquent @cypnk How did you do the binding?
@lilith @cypnk I did a kind of kettle stitch, no cover yet. And I鈥檒l probably want to do this again with better paper and some more precision.
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@somethingeloquent @lilith @cypnk We used to do this!
I got a long arm stapler (~$20) and used that for the spines of each section. Then I wrapped an uncorrogated cardboard cover around it and glued that in place with hotglue.
We used the hotglue to hold the seconds together too.
Worked pretty well. For smaller notebooks, you can skip the glue and staple the cover straight on.
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Works well for Zines, too.