I thought this book was about the history of paper, but only about the first 75 pages are solely about that. After 40 pages about the printing press relenting to...another chapter about printing, I gave up hope that I'd ever learn about paper's development, the different notebooks that have been devised for everything from English class to underwater note taking, or anything else focused on paper alone. 

Skimming through the rest of the book, there are pockets of information about things like the supply chain, modern paper techniques, and a rather long section on paper art crafts, but I wanted the nitty-gritty, "boring" stuff.

What's the supply chain like? What happened to paper production between 1980 and 2010? How's the greeting card market play into paper production? Why is there college ruled and wide ruled paper? What happens when we recycle paper? 

As far as I could tell, none of these topics are given as much attention as printing and art crafts. This is just not what I wanted to read.