A desk that actually works

A dated planner is only good value if you start it in the first week of its year. Undated pads and planners begin whenever you do, and if you skip a fortnight you have not thrown away printed pages. The trade-off is that you write the dates yourself.

Sleeve listings give the screen size range they are cut for, such as 15.6 to 16 inch. Match that to your laptop first, and check the thickness if your machine is an older or heavier model. Hard cases listed as compatible with one specific model do not fit others, even at the same screen size.

The ones described as non-glare, top-loading and heavyweight are intended for regular reference use in a ring binder. If you are storing something you expect to keep for decades, look for the listings that specify their material rather than assuming; where a listing does not state it, we cannot claim it.

Standard shipping is a flat $6.50 within the United States and free over $45. Orders placed before closing on a weekday normally go out the next working day.

Unopened items can be returned within 30 days. Notebooks that have been written in, or protector packs that have been split, cannot be resold and so are not returnable unless they arrived faulty.