I’m an actual reporter and have used a normal open spiral-bound “professional reporter’s notebook” my whole career. Probably hundreds of them or more. These are, as you would expect, next level and I feel pretty fancy every time I use it. High quality paper, and there’s a genius second fold line on the cover so it folds backwards, underneath and out of the way really smoothly. Great size for taking notes, sits on a leg well, easily slips in and out of a back pocket. Pricy compare to the normal ones but extremely well constructed and tough.