Customer Rating: 
Summary: Yay for big Lines!
Comment: I have taught at a mid-western university for 26 years. In those 26 years, I have always used the free gradebooks available from the department office. At the age of 51, last year, I thought I'd try the grading software. It was a miserable experience for me, even as computer literate as I am. I went back to the hard-copy version of gradebook this semester, but, as I filled out the names of my 60 students, I came to the realization that the lines are awfully small and hard to read--my 51 year old eyes, no doubt!
I looked around and found only a few varieties of bound class record books, and this one happened to be the most expensive. After looking and looking, I broke down and bought two of these, thinking that two will last me the rest of my career--retiring in 2012.
I LOVE this gradebook. It is such a high quality--nice cover, nice paper quality and good spiral-binding. The best part is the eye-friendly lines and line-shading, in shades of light and dark gray. No more GREEN! The size of the gradebook matches the size of the papers I collect on 8.5 x 11 paper, so, together, the papers and the gradebook makes a nice, carry-able package in my briefcase.
What strikes me as best is the quality and the eye-friendly-ness. If you aren't using online grading software and your eyes are getting a bit presbyopic ("I beg your pardon! What did you call my eyes?") with advancing age, you might find these just the panacea for both problems.
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