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Diane W. · United Kingdom
★★★★★
Looks better on a desk than the listing photo, and I can keep refilling it
Bought the Ravenclaw cover for my daughter's revision notes and it has more or less taken over her desk. The cover is a soft matte leatherette in a dusty powder blue rather than the bright navy the listing thumbnail suggests, with the eagle crest and the corner vines pressed into the surface in the same colour, so they only really show when the light rakes across it - which looks better in person than a printed graphic would. Stitching runs clean around the edge with no wandering thread. The reason I picked a binder over a notebook is that she can pull sections out and refill them as her subjects change, and that has already happened twice this term. It arrived in a red box with the cover carded and a hangtag printed with the barcode and the small certification marks on the back, which is the sort of thing I look for now. Two honest notes: the pale cover picks up fingerprints fast, and the tone-on-tone embossing is nearly invisible in dim light, so do not expect the crest to jump off the shelf. Eleven ninety-nine, and it has already outlasted the two spiral notebooks it replaced.