I just picked up an inexpensive, folding padfolio from a box store and immediately learned something that I feel I should pass on.
If you have any papers in the left hand pocket area, and you close the padfolio, the pen/pencil will cause the edges of the paper to get all crinkled/messed up. Call me nit-picky, but it really discourages me from putting papers in that pocket. Maybe a zippered padfolio would prevent this, or maybe a better one would be designed so the pocket on the front cover is sized better to protect the paper from the stored pen/pencil. As far as I can tell, they made the pocket exactly 8-1/2" wide so once the seams were added, paper doesn't go all the way into the pocket. If I have more than like 5 pages of papers to put in there, forget it, the edges of the papers are guaranteed to get mangled regardless of there being a pen/pencil in there or not.
TLDR: Before you buy it, try and use all the features to see if they are designed properly.
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