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alt-textIt blows our hivemind that the United States doesn't use the ISO 216 paper size standard (A4, A5 and the gang).

Like, we consider ourselves worldly people and are aware of America's little idiosyncrasies like mass incarceration, the widespread availability of assault weapons and not being able to transfer money via your banking app, but come on - look how absolutely great it is to be European:

The American mind cannot comprehend this diagram

[Diagram of paper sizes as listed below]

ISO 216 A series papers formats

AO

A1

A3

A5

A7

A6

Et.

A4

Instead, Americans prostrate themselves to bizarrely-named paper types of seemingly random size: Letter, Legal, Tabloid (Ledger) and all other types of sordid nonsense. We're not even going to include a picture because this is a family-friendly finance blog.

Source: Financial Times

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[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

How many have yours got? More or fewer?

I have seen legal/letter sized clipboard with two rings, for the short end of the paper.

[–] Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Either two or four. The two holes are kinda in the middle then if it's four holes it's those same two plus two more closer to the edge

[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.de 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

6-9 holes? Is that where Swedes keep their meatballs

[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.de 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Filofax If from UK. For these organisers and notebooks they produce, imho it actually makes sense to have several (equally spaced) holes.

Swedish Triohålning and especially the corresponding binders however, are mildly speaking impractical: It works starting from ISO A6 instead A7 and reading documents in a trio binder is a mess.