About Roaring Spring
Roaring Spring Paper Products is a family-owned American paper manufacturer based in Roaring Spring, Pennsylvania, with a mill history at the site dating back to the 1860s. The company has continued to manufacture composition books, memo books, legal pads, lab and engineering notebooks, and specialty paper lines domestically for over 130 years, distributing through bookstore wholesalers and retailers across the United States and Canada.
Beyond its core notebook lines, the company holds licensing partnerships for specialty formats like the smartphone-camera-friendly Whitelines ruling and its own Doodlewrite prompt notebooks, and describes itself as a member in good standing of the Fair Labor Association. In our testing, that manufacturing pedigree showed up directly in its Lefty Spiral Journal, a right-side-bound notebook built specifically for left-handed writers rather than a novelty item from an importer.
Brand website: rspaperproducts.com
What Roaring Spring makes
Roaring Spring's range runs wider than the products we review. The lines we know best from our own testing are marked with a star:
Spiral Notebooks & Journals
Wirebound notebooks across ruling styles and specialty formats, including their left-handed Lefty line — featured on DeskRated
Composition Books
Sewn-binding composition books in college and wide ruling
Legal Pads & Memo Books
Pad and memo formats for everyday office note-taking
Lab & Engineering Notebooks
Grid and lab-ruled notebooks built for technical and classroom documentation
Index Cards & Folders
Filing and study essentials rounding out their paper product catalog
Whitelines & Doodlewrite specialty lines
Licensed specialty paper formats, including smartphone-camera-friendly Whitelines ruling
Why we recognized Roaring Spring
The DeskRated Top Brand recognition isn't paid for and can't be applied for. We award it to the brands whose products consistently stand out in our hands-on category reviews. Roaring Spring earned it on the strength of the products below, evaluated the same way every product on this site is: bought, used at a real desk, and judged on merit.
Roaring Spring products we rated highly
Roaring Spring Lefty Spiral Journal, College Ruled, Left-Handed Notebook, 8 x 5, 80 Sheets
Right-side spiral binding keeps the coil away from a left-handed writer's hand, the specific design fix that eliminates the wrist-riding-the-coil problem of a standard notebook. In our testing it was the most-reviewed dedicated left-handed spiral notebook we found on Amazon, and its college-ruled, 80-sheet format made it a genuine jot-and-carry option rather than a gimmick.
Read the 11 Best Spiral Notebooks of 2026 guide →What earned Roaring Spring the recognition
- Made in the USA: the Lefty Spiral Journal is manufactured domestically by a paper maker with more than 130 years in the business, not a private-label import
- The most-reviewed dedicated left-handed spiral notebook we found on Amazon, in a niche where most alternatives are novelty items rather than products from an established manufacturer
- Right-side spiral binding specifically solves the coil-under-the-wrist problem, a genuine design fix rather than a cosmetic difference
- Family-owned manufacturer with a paper-mill history in Roaring Spring, Pennsylvania dating back to the 1860s
- Describes itself as a member in good standing of the Fair Labor Association, alongside custom-imprint and wholesale distribution across the US and Canada