Scientific Notebook Company Smyth Sewn Laboratory Single Project Journal 32 pages 9.25" x 11.25"

This is a very, and I repeat, very nice lab notebook. First of all the front cover is pretty hard (I'm guessing made from plywood), together with the back cover, which is very nice and I'd rather prefer the name to be inside the notebook, since if some chemicals are spilled on the notebook, they can smudge the name and thus will become unreadable and will lose the professional look as well. Second, I love the fact that table of contents is already sketched for you and it's not just one, but 16 pages of table of contents, which should be enough in my opinion. Third, and I think this is the best part, is that it has grids on every single page. I hate that stupid national brand research notebook company, where you have only 1 page with grids followed by 4 absolutely blank pages and the pagination there is weird too. What is that? An art student's sketchbook? Anyways, every single page is paginated, has witnessed by section on the bottom, with the date and you can also label the pages with your projects on the top, so that you don't get lost. It's like an actual scientist designed a lab notebook so that minimum amount of time is spent looking for dates/project numbers. Overall the lab notebook is very nice. It is very pleasing to hold this, opens completely flat no problem and looks professional. Very happy with this, so much worth $16 I spent on it. Will buy again once I run out of pages. I added photos of the lab notebook with a quarter dollar for size reference.

I love this notebook. The layout makes perfect sense and it has taken me a year of daily journaling and data entry to actually fill its pages. Well put together and quality binding. Nice page material.

I love how sturdy and durable this notebook is, there are a ton of pages and it looks professional and legitimate. A research scientist mentor at my University uses these and I understand why now.

This is a good quality, professional notebook. The front and back covers are stiff 1.6mm cardboard stock (unlike the "student" version with a thin flimsy cover). Inside is one title page, 16 pages (8 double-sided physical pages) lined for "Table of Contents", 192 pages (96 double-sided pages) regular pages with green 1/4" squares (graph-paper ruling) and finally one blank end page. I have some older lab notebooks from the same company with the graph rulings printed on only one side. Total weight: 817 g. Total thickness: 16 mm. Update: I'm reordering this for the 6th time. I have used this notebook style for about 20 years, I think. It is still as good as ever.

As a kinesthetic learner, I take copious notes. I am in a master's degree program where I live or die by my notes. Unlike spiral-bound ones, these lab notebooks are rugged enough to survive the backpack without damage. And they have enough pages to get me through the term with just one. The quad-rule is eqally good for writing as well as sketching quick tables and diagrams. Well worth the expense.

This notebook is very nice and exactly like pictured and I really like that there are multiple pages for the table of content so I can label each experiment without the fear of running out of space. My only negative is not towards the product itself but how it was delivered. USPS delivered my package and when the package came in, the mail carrier decided to forcefully place the package into my mailbox creating a tear along the side of the package. When I opened my package, I found that the entire notebook was bent and the front cover had a distinct crease down the center (similar to folding a piece of cardboard in half). Besides that the notebook is what I was looking for.

Durable, opens flat, easy to use

Pics pretty much tell the tale. Corner got bumped during shipment but minor compared to the bumps it’ll get while I’m using it. Cover is sturdy, like a hard-core composition notebook before they got all wimpified over the last five (or so) years. Spine is slanted slightly as shown in pics. Doesn’t bother me as long as pages don’t jump ship. Overall, I like it! Haven’t written in it yet so will edit if there are any issues.