Spiral bound notebooks- Is it just me? (Warning- very mundane post)

[MsRosewater]

The back cover always frees itself from the wire binding prompting me to spend AGES retreading the bastard thing instead of doing actual work….Yet I still buy them (I have a stationery habit I am not proud of).

How the hell do you keep them in one piece?????

Mine have never done that. Are you a twiddler?

They are a total pain in the arse!!!

I have one and I spend half my time either trying to untangle it or wanting to throw it against the wall for being such a useless piece of crap 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

They annoy me too. But they do lie flat when opened which is their one saving grace.

I never buy them because of the unthreading, but also because it annoys me that the spiral creates an area of the page you can't write on.

DS is left-handed and hates them with a vengeance because the spiral gets in the way of him writing

I love a spiral bound notebook. I've never had the problem of them coming unthreaded - although sometimes after lots of use the wire comes out of the bottom or top hole.

They are from whichever circle of Dante's Inferno it was that had all the biggest twat things.

Yes this is I why I buy them, but only for my desk diary as that lies flat on my desk all the time, or for notebooks where I’ll be tearing pages out. For a notebook that’s going to be carried around and opened and closed a lot, I get ones that have a binding like a book.

In some of them it’s not even an actual spiral - the wire just has little loops and gaps. What’s the world coming to eh.

Why does he not turn the book upside down and back to front so the spiral is on the other side?

I’ve said that to him, but ‘that’s not the point’ apparently 😂

so I make that 4 to 2 in favour of rage and torment re the unravel with an added segue of pain for left handed folk.

Thank you- I find this very validating though I really don’t understand how others keep them intact when mine disembowel themselves if I look at them wrong.

I’ll almost certainly keep buying them however just because…

I use them, I only buy Oxford Black & Red ones though.

Op I have this issue

I'm left handed and use them for work all the time. I never have any problems.

I have thoroughly enjoyed this thread