A5 Squared Notebook 5 mm standing closed, slate cover with a gem motif reversed out, about eight millimetres thick.

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Squared Notebook 5 mm

A5 squared grid at 5.0 millimetres, thirty-six rows to the page, drawn as vector geometry rather than a bitmap.

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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: graph
Ruling pitch: 5.00 mm · 14.17 pt
Rows per page: 36
Dating: Undated

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Thirty-six rows, five millimetres apart in both directions, printed the same way on every page: that is the specification of this book, and on a page sold for its ruling it is the fact actually worth stating. Most listings for a squared notebook say the words 'graph paper' and stop, leaving the pitch to arrive with the parcel.

The line is drawn, not tiled. A grid built from a repeated bitmap softens at the edge the moment a scan is enlarged past its own resolution; a grid built from vector lines has no fixed resolution to run out of, so it prints as cleanly at twice the size as it does here. One hundred and thirty-two pages carry the grid, unbroken by a divider.

The grid does not know if the number written in one of its boxes is correct. It only keeps the columns lined up while somebody checks.

What is inside

Grid: 132pp; One continuous run of 5 mm squared 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 Squared Notebook 5 mm shown as cards: cover, two squared grid pages, a conversion table, and a pen test page. — Five pages taken from the print file: the cover, two squared pages from different points in the book, a conversion table page, and the pen test leaf. Every line on every page sits the same distance from the next, because the file draws lines, not a repeated picture of one.

Specification card for the Squared Notebook 5 mm: pitch 5.0 mm, thirty-six rows per page, one hundred forty pages total, A5 trim, vector ruling. — One continuous run of squared ruling at 5.0 millimetres, thirty-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. — Squared Notebook 5 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. — Squared Notebook 5 mm — Emergency numbers

One page for your name and number, so a book that goes missing can come back. — Squared Notebook 5 mm — This book belongs to

A pictogram grid captioned in English above and Indonesian below, for when there is no shared language. — Squared Notebook 5 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. — Squared Notebook 5 mm — World map

The PDF of this book.

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