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Ruled Notebook Narrow
Narrow ruled, quantified: 6.35 mm between lines, the quarter-inch US standard, twenty-seven rows to the page.
Price
from Rp 60.000
Softcover, French link sewing. Printed and sewn to order.
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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
- lined
- Ruling pitch
- 6.35 mm · 18.00 pt · 1/4 in
- Rows per page
- 27
- Dating
- Undated
Build it
Rp 60,000
Narrow ruled is a phrase most stationery aisles print on the cover and never explain. Here it is a quarter of an inch between lines, 6.35 millimetres, twenty-seven rows down the page. That is the actual US paper standard behind the words, not a rounded guess at it.
The pitch comes from the definition itself: one quarter of an inch, which is 6.35 millimetres, not a figure rounded off a printed page after the fact. Every rule on the page is vector geometry, plotted rather than photographed from a tile, so a hairline this fine never turns into a blur when the page is magnified.
It sits between the other two American rulings on this shelf: wider on one side, narrower on the other. This is the one most people mean by narrow without ever saying the number.
What is inside
- Ruled pages
- 130pp
- 6.35 mm pitch, the quarter-inch US standard, twenty-seven rows to the page.
- Reference
- 10pp
- Owner page, conversion tables computed from definitions, and emergency numbers checked against two independent sources.
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 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?







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.
Download PDF PDF · 140 pages · 0.4 MB
Made at the Hibrkraft bindery, Bogor · about the maker
Compared with
Books that sit alongside it
- Lined Notebook 6 mmA finer pitch6.35 mm to 6.0 mm
- Lined Notebook 7 mmA coarser pitch7.0 mm to 6.35 mm
- Ruled Insert NarrowSame ruling, other trimlined at 6.35 mm: 27 lines at a5 against 24 at 5x7
Questions
What does narrow ruled actually mean here?
A quarter of an inch between lines, 6.35 mm, the US paper standard, not a rounded label.
How many lines to a page?
Twenty-seven.
Is there a wider option?
Yes, Lined Notebook 7 mm sits a shade wider, and Ruled Notebook College wider again.
How big is the book?
A5, one hundred and forty pages, seven sewn signatures of twenty.
Is it dated?
No, so it never expires.
I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
Price
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