How on earth do you stop pages ripping out of ringbinders?!

Or you could buy this hole puncher meaning you have to do a lot of hole punching, but pages stay lovely

http://www.ryman.co.uk/0710146099/Ryman-Single-Punch-5-Sheet-Capacity/Product

Yeah, I had this problem but then I decided to just use higher quality paper. This meant that, letting X be the random variable representing the number of broken holes per 100 pages, I could let X be distributed Poisson-ly, thus meaning that P(X>0) < 0.0001 rather than P(X>0) = 0.8976 before when I used paper of low quality. I can then use the proposed distribution to actually test this theory by using hypothesis testing.

Once I did that, on the rare occasion that a hole would break, I simply used the hole punch reinforcers and it's been working ever since

I found this
http://www.ukofficedirect.co.uk/i/sm43/OD-Rapid-SRE-Hole-Reinforcer-Automatic-Alignment-Capacity-200-Patches-Ref-25100411?AFF=LI261263

Isn't that just.. a single hole-puncher? What does it do which a normal holepuncher can't (other than only making one hole)?



I can't afford to be using super high quality paper! And also, I can't say to a teacher "can you use 100gsm paper from now on in our printouts?"

When we're doing our hypothesis testing, what sort of level of significance are we talking?

Isn't that just.. a single hole-puncher? What does it do which a normal holepuncher can't (other than only making one hole)?



I can't afford to be using super high quality paper! And also, I can't say to a teacher "can you use 100gsm paper from now on in our printouts?"

When we're doing our hypothesis testing, what sort of level of significance are we talking?

The mother of all pointless and expensive stationary

The point is that two hole hole punched are impossible to use for four hole binders, so the single one can be used to make the extra top and bottom holes. A lot more convenient than carrying a huge four hole desk holepuncher in your bag

Hmmph. I hate paper whatever you do, in the end it will always degrade, get torn/crumpled.. bahh

I've never owned a single or 4 punch holepunch and have used 4 holed folders many times?

I guess I must have just used the double holepunch as a single one (i.e. only let one of the punches be over the paper).

I'm interested in an answer to this thread because the way I fixed this problem is just by tablet-ising everything. I have all my chemistry, maths, physics, etc... books on my tablet which I can simply carry around in my pocket. :P

i put everything in plastic wallets. for normal lecture notes the whole lecture goes into one wallet to keep it together, but for things such as my placement file which has to be handed in in a folder, i put 2 pages in each folder back to back, so it reads like a book.

another cheaper thing you could do, but again effort is half a sticky label (white) folded round the bit of paper, so one label covers one piece of paper. then whole punch through that. it gives the paper extra strength, and works pretty well