Recently moved to finland and I was trying to find a single rule books, other than expensive note books, I couldn't find single rule books. This made me think, due to the abundance of cheap square rule books, does finnish kids write notes on square rule books?

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  1. >This made me think, due to the abundance of cheap square rule books, does finnish kids write notes on square rule books?

    Pretty much, yeah.

  3. You can find them – Suomalainen kauppakirja has them, Akateeminen (https://akateeminen.com/ ) and curiously, Clas Ohlson also stock them. If they are there then I usually stock up with one or two (A4, spiral bound)

  4. I moved here from the UK 17 years ago and wondered exactly the same thing. I went out of my way to buy lined paper once, then decided I couldn’t be bothered. It didn’t take long for me to get used to writing on squared paper and I ended up studying maths at university so the squares came in handy. 🙂

  5. There are the horisontal lines. You kinda get used to ignoring the vertical ones. But they help with lining up the beginning of line nicely, and when drawing diagrams.

  6. The modern assumption is that nowadays people would primarily write their notes digitally and own the tools to do so, which is why single rule notebooks disappeared from stores almost a decade ago because they assumed that tablets and laptops would eventually replace them anyway and “no one would use paper anymore in the near future.” And nowadays, we just have to settle for a poorer and smaller selection or order notebooks online from abroad because there is no likelihood, at least in the foreseeable future, that products that have already been discontinued will be returned to the selections. But if you ignore the vertical lines on the grid paper, the grid paper does the same thing as the single rule and can be used for the same purpose.

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