All sheets are perforated along the spine and hole-punched to be torn out and used with five-ring binders.
[1] In the May 1996 edition of Arcane (Issue 6), Jim Swallow was ambivalent about the record sheets, pointing out that "The cover art is nice, but these are nothing to get excited about - they're books of record sheets.
You can get exactly the same thing in a few minutes with the basic rules, a pencil and a copy of the relevant BattleTech Technical Readout."
Swallow gave the sheets a below average rating of 4 out of 10.
[1] In the June 1996 edition of Dragon (Issue 230), Rick Swan thought that because the sheets covered so many different vehicles, "this may be the best value in the history of the hobby!