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abshoo college backpacks

Nine backpacks between 18 and 34 litres, eight of them with a padded laptop sleeve up to 17 inches, six with a luggage strap for the handle of a suitcase, from fifteen dollars.

  • 9 bags
  • 56 colourways
  • 18–34 L where a litre figure is given
  • $15.00–$39.99 at our last update

abshoo backpack

A college bag has two jobs a school bag does not: it goes on a plane and it holds a laptop that costs more than the bag. Both of those are settled by numbers on the card. The luggage strap on six of these is a sleeve across the back panel that slides over a suitcase handle, which is the difference between wheeling one thing through an airport and carrying two. The litre figures run 18, 22, 26, 32 and 34, and the jump from 22 to 34 is roughly the jump from a day of lectures to a long weekend with clothes in the bag. The 34-litre travel backpack is the largest thing in the catalogue at 18 by 13.5 by 8 inches; the classic at 15 dollars is the oldest and by a long way the most reviewed bag we make.

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Every abshoo backpack on this shelf

Travel backpack

abshoo Classic Travel Backpack

  • 34 litres
  • Fits a 15.6-inch laptop
  • Water-resistant fabric

4.6 · 18,765 ratings

from $15.00

Travel backpack

abshoo 34L Travel Backpack

  • 34 litres
  • Medium and Large sizes
  • Water-resistant fabric

4.6 · 209 ratings

from $26.99

Travel backpack

abshoo 32L Campus Backpack

  • 32 litres
  • 17.7" tall
  • Water-resistant fabric

4.7 · 130 ratings

from $24.99

Prices are the ones from our last update; an abshoo eye updates them on a schedule, and the figure at the till is the one that counts.

03Before you order

Questions about abshoo college backpacks

What the litre figure means once you are carrying a laptop, when the USB port is worth having, and which of these fits under an airline seat.

How many litres do you need in an abshoo college backpack?

Twenty-two covers a day of lectures with a laptop, a notebook and a bottle. Thirty-two to thirty-four is a long weekend with clothes in the bag, and it is more than most people want to carry across a campus every day. The eighteen-litre bookbag is the one to look at if you are carrying a laptop and nothing else.

Which abshoo backpack slides over your suitcase handle?

Six of the nine on this shelf have a luggage strap, a sleeve stitched across the back panel that slides over the extended handle of a wheeled case. The card says which. It is the feature that makes a bag a travel bag rather than a school bag, and it costs nothing in weight.

Are you getting the same bag in the fifteen-dollar abshoo backpack and the thirty-dollar one?

No, and the price is not the difference in cloth. The cheapest classic is the 16.5-inch height in a plain colour; the same family at the top of its range is the 18-inch, 34-litre version with more pockets. Between families, what pushes a price up on this shelf is a bigger shell, a padded laptop sleeve or a USB port, and the card names all three.

Every abshoo height, every colour

Every size, print and colourway in the abshoo school range sits behind this button, with the price from our last update against each one.