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title: "Who Invented Notebooks? The Real History From Wax Tablets to Spiral Coils"
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# Who Invented Notebooks? The Real History From Wax Tablets to Spiral Coils

Nobody invented the notebook. Here is the real chronology, from Roman wax tablets to the 1888 Holyoke pads and coil binding, with the dates that check out.

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