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Nov. 29th, 2006 10:31 amCan any of you suggest techniques or gadgets to make it easier to turn large pages? I have an open-book exam Saturday, and the main reference material I have is in a large loose-leaf binder of 8.5"x11" sheets. There are sturdy plastic dividers with side-tabs every 100-150 pages, and those help with the page turning somewhat, and also help my memory (I can remember the table of limitations of non-destructive tests was near the middle of the measurement chapter more easily than I can remember what they say those limits are. It's frustrating how the bits I disagree with stick in my mind more easily.) There's a general index with pointers like VI-34, which can be useful...I can get to section VI well enough, but turning to page 34 in a reasonable time is painful and difficult.
Vicki suggested the tacky finger paste used to collate papers (I think banks used to use it for counting paper money, when they did that by hand.) What's that called?
What I'm trying now is adding tabs across the tops of pages. For the first few chapters, putting tabs on the pages I can't remember (because they have numeric tables, or because they say things that push my "not even wrong!" button, or just because the practice questions I have keep asking about insane details found there) gives me 5-8 tabs per chapter. So they fit across the top of the page. But later chapters will want more tabs, being longer and more math-based. I don't know if I should only tab the most important? Tab approximately every 15 pages? Put 2 layers of tabs, somehow color-coded? The tabs I'm using so far are 1"x2.75" white labels. I put them so the long part sticks up, and fold it over, so there is a rectangle of doubled paper (about 1" wide, 0.75" high) to write on, and a bit less than that sticking to both sides of the paper. It's some physical help with page-turning, but the main use is announcing "here it is, just slide your hand under all the other pages and lift them out of the way."
Do you know of anything that would work better? I'm planning to print out a small set of other notes, also on 8.5x11" paper. I wrote it with 12-point font, separating things with white space, trying to make it easy to read and not worrying about space. I thought I could just put an extra 50 pages in the big binder, there was enough room. But now I think it would be better to have it separate. And maybe have the index to the big binder separate as well?
Vicki suggested the tacky finger paste used to collate papers (I think banks used to use it for counting paper money, when they did that by hand.) What's that called?
What I'm trying now is adding tabs across the tops of pages. For the first few chapters, putting tabs on the pages I can't remember (because they have numeric tables, or because they say things that push my "not even wrong!" button, or just because the practice questions I have keep asking about insane details found there) gives me 5-8 tabs per chapter. So they fit across the top of the page. But later chapters will want more tabs, being longer and more math-based. I don't know if I should only tab the most important? Tab approximately every 15 pages? Put 2 layers of tabs, somehow color-coded? The tabs I'm using so far are 1"x2.75" white labels. I put them so the long part sticks up, and fold it over, so there is a rectangle of doubled paper (about 1" wide, 0.75" high) to write on, and a bit less than that sticking to both sides of the paper. It's some physical help with page-turning, but the main use is announcing "here it is, just slide your hand under all the other pages and lift them out of the way."
Do you know of anything that would work better? I'm planning to print out a small set of other notes, also on 8.5x11" paper. I wrote it with 12-point font, separating things with white space, trying to make it easy to read and not worrying about space. I thought I could just put an extra 50 pages in the big binder, there was enough room. But now I think it would be better to have it separate. And maybe have the index to the big binder separate as well?
