Store bought sketch books?

... where I'm going I don't need, Store bought sketch books (points for the reference).

Made my own sketchbook. Made a stack of various surface-types and colors of paper about an inch thick, 8.5x5.5 - clamped them together, drilled holes, threaded a few laps with a needle and thread and sealed it off with masking tape. Cut out a cardboard cover to wrap it in and connect to it and vwalla... as good if not better than any craft store or walmart sketchbook.

Its superior because the cardboard cover lets me decorate/ draw on it however i wish. The pages offer coverstock thickness, to laser printer paper thickness, as well as colored fax paper thicknesses for some variation fun :) 

And I will be installing a pocket on the inside of the front cover per my new norm. Whats not to like?