composition book
Marbled cover notebook
A composition book is a notebook with a distinctive black-and-white marbled cover, sewn binding, and lined pages.
Standard in American schools for generations, the sewn spine prevents pages from being torn out easily—a feature teachers appreciate.
She filled three composition books with journal entries.
The term sometimes applies to any similar bound notebook regardless of cover pattern.
- notebookBlank pages for jottings
- black and whiteWithout middle ground
- writing padStationery for jotting
- lined paperWriting surface with guides
- spiral boundJoined by wire loops
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- stationerypen, pencil, paper, notebook, envelope
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composition bookspiral notebook
Coiled-binding paper pad
three-ring binder · legal pad · ring binder · notepad · steno pad
composition bookscrap paper
Discarded pages repurposed for notes
sticky notes · scratch pad · napkin · back of envelope · memo pad
composition bookdigital notebook
Software for storing notes
tablet · laptop · word processor · note-taking app · Google Docs
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