Comments on: Old-fashioned but usable loose-leaf book needed...

Question: Old-fashioned but usable loose-leaf book needed...

blue_wardrobe — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:07:16 -0800

Where can I find an old type of loose-leaf journal?

When I was young, I had a journal with hard leather covers, with a loose leaf mechanism like a bulldog clip.

(The covers were the handles, except hinged, and the journal spine was a metal cylinder like the bulldog clip has, except it ran the entire length, and was covered in the leather.)

You didn't need to punch holes in the paper or anything, you just folded back the covers, and held them while you rearranged the papers. When you released the covers, the spine gripped the papers firmly again.

Where can I find these types of loose-leaf books these days?

By: mia_farrow

mia_farrow — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:53:22 -0800

Clamp binders. I remember seeing the kind you're describing but the only leather ones I could find were these. Hope this helps!

By: blue_wardrobe

blue_wardrobe — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:57:57 -0800

@mia_farrow: thanks! AskMeFi rocks again.

By: TheManChild2000

TheManChild2000 — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:17:46 -0800

Just a note that those Sam Flax clamp binders in mia_farrow's second link are not leather, but rather fabric (bookcloth?) covered. I bought one and it's quite nice, though.

By: blue_wardrobe

blue_wardrobe — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 20:18:02 -0800

So, I went to the UK to help clear my late mother-in-law's house.

On the way there, I was thinking about this problem again, because having looked at mia_farrow's links, I could only locate A4 binders, which would have been too big. I was thinking about something about 6 x 4 inches.

So, one of the things I came across amongst thirty and forty year old paperwork was...

... a 6 x 4 inch black clad clamp binder!

Guess what I inherited... :)