Binder Thickness

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Binder Thickness

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How thick are your binders?
Mine is a solid 3 inch.
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Almandine wrote:How T H I C C are your binders?
Mine is a solid 3 inch.
Same for Rocks and Minerals.
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We had a huge one for road I never bothered condensing
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Back in my Fossils and R&M days we used 5-inch binders, but none can compare to chalker's monster Crave the Wave binder he showed a picture of once that I couldn't find again.

(also why is this in the nats forums lmao)
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I didn't do binder this year, last year was around 2 inches for invasive. I'm personally not a big fan of large binders and it was already hard enough to find things when my binder broke during competition and some pages fell out/got out of order. I just IDed the animal quickly and only went through if I had time, otherwise answered with whatever made sense
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one of our binders is projected to weigh 15 lbs by the end of next week
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Last year my hover binder had 3 whole textbooks in it...we never opened it ONCE during a test. RIP trees...

Also, at nationals last year, the road binder apparently had 4 pages, which were the required USGS topo symbols (I didn't do it last year). They placed third lol
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Yeah road binders don't require much, but ours had every single shred of notes from our schools road teams dating back at least 4-5 years
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Back in 2016, my 3rd place Invasives binder was 6 inches. We taped the rings to prevent pages from falling out. Our 4th place Fossils binder was 5 inches.
This year our herp binder is 5 inches and he's starting to overflow.
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