adrian_turtle

After pathetic amounts of fretting and difficulty, I finally have something to help the problem of turning pages in my big notebook of reference material. I transferred the pages from the big book to 4 smaller books, and added a bunch of dividers, which helped some. The act of turning pages was still a strain, but I didn't have to do it so often. Adding tabs helped too. I was in Staples this afternoon, buying more of the ready-made big plastic side tabs (as opposed to the little top ones I've been making dozens of), when I saw an ad, or a marketing display--a Thing they have to advise people about buying loose-leaf binders. It said their smooth durable round rings opened and closed easily, and allowed easy turning of pages, and the extra-durable binders with D-shaped rings were recommended for archival use, as the rings held more paper for the same width spine. The binders I was using all had D-rings. I hadn't even thought about the difference.

I tried it as soon as I got home. It doesn't solve the whole problem, but it does make it noticably easier. Pages go right over, instead of having to be supported through "turning the corner" of the D-ring. I hadn't bought any new binders. I have almost 2 shelves full of various stuff in 3-ring binders. Surely some of it must be appropriately sized with round rings! I could just transfer the paper for a few days, then put it back. The big stack of reference material can go back in the big binder for the long term, when I'm only looking things up in it occasionally, rather than many times in 5 hours.

( finding notebooks )

( There wasn't anything objectively horrible in the notebook. Some of it was pretty funny, really. )

I think I'm tired enough to sleep now. Maybe past that tired. We'll see. It's not a good night.