Ampad Quadrille Pad with 8 Squares per Inch, Letter Size, White, 50 Sheets per Pad (22-005), 10 Pack

Firstly, I too avoided buying this product for a whole semester because of worries about the packaging. I tried purchasing several varieties of graph paper with 10 squares per inch, but the grid was just too small. So finally I decided to risk it and try purchasing this product (because I can’t find any other with the 8/inch grid). The packaging issues, as another reviewer noted, must have been fixed, because it came in perfect condition in a box similar to a book’s, with those big plastic air cushion’s around it, perfect condition. If you’re worried about the packaging, I’d say don’t worry too much, it seems to have been fixed!Now to the paper: it’s wonderful. I have, after two years studying engineering, finally found my perfect paper. The squares are just small enough, and just big enough, and the lines are a lovely light blue. I cannot stand graph paper where pencil barely stands out against the dark grid, and the ink on this paper doesn’t do that. My only wish is that there was a darker line every four or eight squares for reference. Ampad has a 10 sq/inch pad with this feature, and I’m not sure why it was left out of these pads. The 8 squares per inch isn’t quite as disorienting as 10, but it still would have been useful. I’m not taking a star off for that, though, because it’s a personal thing, and not totally necessary, and I want to make up for the bad reviews that the previous packaging method garnered.All in all: good product.