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Before you get too excited about this brilliant desk accessory that provides a place to jot notes while organising your various writing implements, you need to know it has a very dark secret: it’s expensive. Like unjustifiably crazy expensive for what is essentially a stack of paper.
After looking at it, you have to wonder why every thick notepad doesn’t have a spot to store other office accessories. But apparently the act of drilling holes into 380 sheets of recycled paper requires tools on the bleeding edge of technology. Why else would these range in price from £40 up to £46? Clearly no average citizen could put a stack of paper in a drill press and simply make their own.
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they will get sued for those white roundish corners…..
It’s probably more likely that the sheets are die cut & hand collated (a labor intensive process), as last time I checked the existence of a square drill is non.
Presumably they’re counting on the length of the pencils going down as the paper gets used, you know, to avoid the pencils eventually falling over?
“brilliant desk accessory”
I wholeheartedly disagree. It’s neat looking, but in practical terms it’s really counter-intuitive, as you can’t just pick up the pad of paper to take to a meeting, on a train or whatever. This is the opposite of good design.
maybe have a spare pad to take on the train?