{"id":31037,"date":"2022-01-24T09:36:17","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T16:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=31037"},"modified":"2022-01-24T10:36:43","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T17:36:43","slug":"indestructible-field-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/indestructible-field-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Indestructible Field Book"},"content":{"rendered":"

Like many Cool Tools readers, I have long carried a pocket notebook for quick notes and logs of conversations or information I don\u2019t want to forget. I used to carry Moleskines, but they were not really satisfactory for back-pocket carries and eventually fell apart. Though I liked their aesthetics, I shared a common complaint about the flimsiness and \u201cbleediness\u201d of their paper. My search for a durable pocket notebook is over. This \u201cIndestructible Field Book<\/a>\u201d by Elan Publishing, a longtime maker of teacher\u2019s record books, lives up to its name. I will never be without one again. I am giving away any other spare pocket-sized notebooks. They are sized like other popular pocket notebooks, with ruled pages. But the synthetic paper, which is plastic coated with ink-receiving clay, is absolutely waterproof, smear-proof, and tear-proof. Back pockets hold no hazards for this tough tool.<\/p>\n

Unlike the Rite-in-the-Rain notebooks, which use beeswax to achieve waterproofing, these don’t require any special pens or pencils but can take any standard ball-point pen. I have good results with a Fisher Space Pen, but any standard ballpoint I have tried works fine. The one exception is gel pens; they will smear, so you will have to forego those crisp, color-intense gel lines.<\/p>\n

A\u00a0pack of four 48-page books\u00a0is cheap enough to use for everyday note-taking and the same number of total pages as a Moleskine pocket notebook. So far as I\u2019ve been able to discover, this model only comes in one distinctive bright orange color (Elan makes other \u201cnon-indestructible\u201d notebooks as well).<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t find information on the synthetic paper on the Elan site, but according to the online printing industry publication In-Plant Graphics, \u201cSynthetic paper is a white matte plastic that is made from a mixture of polypropylene and polyethylene. It\u2019s either produced by die extrusion with a clay-coated finish, or clay-filled when being produced into a single-layered substrate by calendar extrusion. \u2026 All synthetic papers are 100% recyclable, moisture resistant, tear-resistant, and UV resistant, which helps keep them out of the waste stream longer than pulp paper. Unlike PVC-vinyl and polystyrene substrates, synthetic papers do not use chlorine, stearates, heavy metals, or any cancer-causing chemicals in their manufacturing process. Therefore, synthetic paper is considered more sustainable and environmentally friendly.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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