wookey said:
That gelert one is very cheap. Has anyone actually tried it?
We (ICCC) bought a load in 2007, they have seemed to perform fine. The feel of the plasticy paper and construction is utterly indistinguishable from the BCB ones, the earliest worked examples of which we have going back to 1995 (the comb binder used to be black, and the print on the front page was of a different design and monochrome, that's all that seems to have changed).
The main design issue with the comb-bound survey books is when people rip out pages either for PSSs, or for archival of the data.
They only seem to have one left, otherwise I'd buy 10.
Sorry about that -- they arrived yesterday.
They might soon be restocking though, as the 1st parcel they sent (inc. 5 Gelert books) was 'lost in the post' and has been returned after they sent out a new parcel with fresh stock.
The cheap floppy ones need a backing plate of some sort otherwise they are very annoying.
I quite agree -- though seem people seem to like how 'invisible' they are in an oversuit pocket through the squeezes, storing the pencils in their 1st aid bottle / with the instruments.
And of course no-one uses paper any more for cave surveying
Just me & everyone I know