A5 Dotted Notebook 4 mm standing closed, sage cover with a gem motif reversed out, about eight millimetres thick.

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Dotted Notebook 4 mm

A5 dot grid at 4.0 millimetres, forty-six rows to the page, drawn as vector geometry rather than a bitmap.

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from Rp 60.000

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Specification

Type: Notebook
Trim: 148 × 210 mm · 5.827 × 8.268 in
Pages: 140
Leaves: 70
Sheets: 35
Signatures: 7 × 20pp
Spine: 8.01 mm
Paper: white
Ruling: dot
Ruling pitch: 4.00 mm · 11.34 pt
Rows per page: 46
Dating: Undated

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Four millimetres, corner to corner: that is the specification, and on a page sold for its ruling it is the only fact worth arguing about. Forty-six rows fit the column at that pitch, run the same distance apart from the first page to the last, with no divider or index interrupting the count.

The dot is drawn, not tiled. A grid built from a repeated bitmap goes soft at the edges the moment somebody zooms into a scan or a print run enlarges it past its own resolution; a grid built from vector lines does not, because there is no fixed resolution to run out of. Most listings for a dotted page stop at the words 'dot grid' and leave the spacing to arrive with the parcel.

This one states it up front: 4.0 millimetres, one hundred thirty-two ruled pages, plain. Nothing on the page explains what the grid is for. That was never this book's job.

What is inside

Dots: 132pp; One continuous run of 4 mm dot ruling, drawn as vector lines so it holds its edge at any zoom.
Reference: 8pp; Owner details, unit conversions computed from definitions, and the pen test leaf.

In every book

The same six pages open every book: your details, who to call, the signs to point at when you have no shared language, and the map. They sit at the front because the moment you need them is not the moment to be flicking through.

This book belongs to: One page for your name and number, so a book that goes missing can come back.
My details: Blood group, allergies, who to call. Written once, carried everywhere.
Emergency numbers: Forty countries, taken from Wikidata property P2852 (CC0), agreed across two sources, every row carrying its QID. Numbers change and a book does not — verify locally on arrival.
Point at this: A pictogram grid captioned in English above and Indonesian below, for when there is no shared language.
World map: Natural Earth 110m, public domain, equirectangular, with UTC hour meridians computed from the projection rather than from a timezone database. For orientation and for pointing at, not a navigation chart.
Conversion tables: Computed from definitions — 25.4 mm to the inch — and not copied from anywhere, so every row can be checked by anyone holding the book.
Pen test leaf: The last page, printed for it on purpose. Every notebook is used this way; printing it deliberately is cheaper than losing the last leaf to it by accident.

The film

Page by page

A vertical film, 52 seconds: the cover, the ruling page, then 5 reference pages. Synthesised ambient bed, no dialogue — captions in three languages.

A vertical film from our own bench — this page contacts nobody's server to play it, and downloads nothing until you press play.

What is inside this book?

Five pages from the Dotted Notebook 4 mm shown as cards: cover, two dotted grid pages, a conversion table, and a pen test page. — Five pages taken from the print file: the cover, two dotted pages from different points in the book, a conversion table page, and the pen test leaf. Every dot on every page sits the same distance from the next, because the file draws points, not a repeated picture of one.

Specification card for the Dotted Notebook 4 mm: pitch 4.0 mm, forty-six rows per page, one hundred forty pages total, A5 trim, vector ruling. — One continuous run of dot ruling at 4.0 millimetres, forty-six rows to the page, with no divider breaking it up. Eight pages of furniture: owner details, unit conversions computed from definitions, and the pen test leaf. A5, one hundred forty pages total.

Computed from definitions — 25.4 mm to the inch — and not copied from anywhere, so every row can be checked by anyone holding the book. — Dotted Notebook 4 mm — Conversion tables

Forty countries, taken from Wikidata property P2852 (CC0), agreed across two sources, every row carrying its QID. Numbers change and a book does not — verify locally on arrival. — Dotted Notebook 4 mm — Emergency numbers

One page for your name and number, so a book that goes missing can come back. — Dotted Notebook 4 mm — This book belongs to

A pictogram grid captioned in English above and Indonesian below, for when there is no shared language. — Dotted Notebook 4 mm — Point at this

Natural Earth 110m, public domain, equirectangular, with UTC hour meridians computed from the projection rather than from a timezone database. For orientation and for pointing at, not a navigation chart. — Dotted Notebook 4 mm — World map

The PDF of this book.

We do not sell the design or the PDF. Download it free, with no conditions at all, not even tracking. What we sell is the book, a real object that is genuinely useful and can help your life.

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Compared with

Books that sit alongside it

Dotted Insert 4 mmSame ruling, other trimdot at 4.0 mm: 46 lines at a5 against 38 at 5x7
Dotted Notebook 5 mmA coarser pitch5.0 mm to 4.0 mm

Questions

What is the exact dot spacing?

4.0 millimetres, measured centre to centre.

How many rows fit a page?

Forty-six, at that pitch.

How big is it?

A5, 148 x 210 mm, 140 pages, 8.01 mm across the spine.

Is the grid printed as a bitmap image?

No. Every dot is a drawn point in the page's own geometry, so it stays sharp at any zoom rather than softening like a tiled scan.

Is it dated?

No.

Nothing must be thought to belong to a man, which doth not belong unto him as he is a man.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, c. 175