Here’s Blackwing's take on the 8 1/2 x 11 legal pad. Each pad has 50 blank sheets of high-quality ivory paper, similar to the paper found in Blackwing’s Slate Notebooks. The pages are staple-bound and perforated, so they only tear away when you want them to. John Steinbeck famously used legal pads to pencil his novels. What will you create with yours? Set of 2.