Editing Paper size (section)

=== Notebook sizes ===

The sizes listed above are for paper sold loose in [[paper ream|ream]]s. There are many sizes of [[notebook|tablets of paper]], that is, sheets of paper bound at one edge, usually by a strip of plastic or hardened [[polyvinyl acetate|PVA adhesive]]. Often there is a pad of [[paperboard|cardboard]] (also known as paperboard or greyboard) at the bottom of the stack. Such a tablet serves as a portable writing surface, and the sheets often have lines printed on them, usually in [[Non-photo blue|non-repro blue]], to make writing in a line easier. An older means of binding is to have the sheets stapled to the cardboard along the top of the tablet; there is a line of perforated holes across every page just below the top edge from which any page may be torn off. Lastly, a pad of sheets each weakly stuck with adhesive to the sheet below, trademarked as "[[Post-It]]" or "Stick-Em" and available in various sizes, serve as a sort of tablet.

"Letter pads" are {{cvt|8+1/2|x|11|inch|mm}}, while the term "legal pad" is often used by laymen to refer to pads of various sizes including those of {{cvt|8+1/2|x|14|inch|mm}}. [[stenography|Stenographers]] use "steno pads" of {{cvt|6|x|9|inch|mm}}. The steno pad size is also used by [[Scholastic Corporation]] as the text block size of their hardcover editions of the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' novels, with paperback editions using DIN D6.