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Answer : STENO PAD
steno pad (plural steno pads)
a pad of paper specially designed for use taking dictation in shorthand
Steno pads were originally used for stenography, or shorthand. Stenography is a method of taking of very fast notes. These notes, in written form, are called shorthand. The main purpose is to take down what someone is saying word for word. Secretaries and news reporters, before voice recorders, had to use shorthand.
Sentences in shorthand are much shorter because the words are made up of short symbols and short abbreviations. The page of a steno notebook is divided in half to help the note-taker to move quickly. If you write using the whole line, from far left to the far right side of the page, it takes considerably more time—twice the time, in fact—than it takes to bring your pen back from the middle line to the left (or from the far right to the middle line). The middle line helps to keep your hand from “traveling” unnecessarily across the page.
You can also squeeze in more phrases and sentences in the distance between the left side and the middle line in shortand than in longhand/cursive.
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