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>They don't line up nicely with the A4 stuff. They don't go gently in the A4 folders / sleeves / pockets / ring binders (files) / etc. This statement, and the
by Diesel555 4y ago
>They don't line up nicely with the A4 stuff. They don't go gently in the A4 folders / sleeves / pockets / ring binders (files) / etc.
This statement, and the rest of the post, simply reads "I don't like different". However, the article is about the mathematical benefits of A4, the failures of 8.5x11, and the true benefit of A4 from a paper-size agnostic society.
This article convinced A4 is better (and the entire system) not because it doesn't fit in my folders, but because it makes practical sense.
- personalidea 4y agoIt has practical implications. I have a file cabinet which is made for A4 paper in landscape. Now, I have some official paperwork from another country that has more the form of a spell scroll and the only way to fit that into my cabinet or binder or wherever is to fold it. Which is something I would like to avoid on things like birth certificates and such.
- Dylan16807 4y agoI don't think anyone is defending documents that have to be rolled up? Letter should fit fine into your file cabinet unless it has some really tight margins. If "legal" size is a problem, then I can understand that better, but that size is just as much of a pain in a letter world as in an A4 world. They made it too long on purpose. They likely would have done the same thing with A4 as a base, if letter didn't exist.