Reeds Ringbinder

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Over the years I've had my copy of Reeds in ring-binders. I prefer the way you can open the page you want, it remains open and flat, but the ring-binders are rubbish! Usually the two halves of the rings part and you have a cutting edge that rips the pages.

Does anybody know of an alternative supplier of quality ring-binders or has an made a ring-binder that works?

 

[Jabs]

Leitz!

Tony

 

[James_Calvert]

When I used the loose leaf version I balked at the cost of the binder and instead used single loose rings through the punched holes. Not as elegant or as easy to insert or remove individual pages but fine as a once a year exercise to select all the pages I might need over the season.

 

[AndyL]

Shoelaces?

 

[Redfox226]

Treasury Tags?

 

[RIBW]

Does anybody know of an alternative supplier of quality ring-binders or has an made a ring-binder that works?

I bought 3-ring hard cover binders (i.e. the standard US binder) of various sizes (thickness) to suit that season's cruising area (I rarely use the whole thing). That was about 15 years ago. They are still working well. If you can't find a current UK supplier of US binders send me a PM and I will try to find out where I sourced mine. The big problem I found was sourcing a retaining clip to retain the paper tightly on the rings. Never did find a solution.

 

[Mistroma]

Over the years I've had my copy of Reeds in ring-binders. I prefer the way you can open the page you want, it remains open and flat, but the ring-binders are rubbish! Usually the two halves of the rings part and you have a cutting edge that rips the pages.

Does anybody know of an alternative supplier of quality ring-binders or has an made a ring-binder that works?

Do I qualify? Pretty certain I have one lying around somewhere if you want to pay postage. I didn't use it much but seem to remember that the Velcro closing tab broke off. Probably not worth the postage though.

I suppose the publisher thought he'd get a captive market by making the binders non-standard. I think the main result was probably to put more people off buying a copy.

 

[solent clown]

normal bound paperback is horrible to read in low light, especially the text near the spine which always seems to be in shadow.

 

[RIBW]

Found my source: Way back then it was Duraweld in Scarborough, YO11 3UP. Tel: 01723 584 091. I bought 40mm binders and that easily accommodates the Reeds 'front end' plus 7 areas. Their current status is unknown to me.
I also now recall that I bought a box full (12ish) and then sold on the ones I didn't want - individually. The net cost to me was thereby pretty minimal.

Shame about the loads of them I binned when HQ in the US sent me documents in 3-ring folders.

I suppose the publisher thought he'd get a captive market by making the binders non-standard.

I supposed the publisher knew what happened to paper in the 2-ring binders that were once prevalent and thought he could do better for his customers ?

Cheers
Bob