About the Whitelines Squared notebook:<p>> The binding doesn’t open flat; in fact, it doesn’t really even come close, and this will be a nuisance.<p>I got this notebook in the mail yesterday, and this is actually a huge problem for me. I wish it was more obvious that this was an issue.<p>I think it's useful to look at posts like these which compare a variety of options rather than looking at reviews for a single product.