Old-fashioned but usable loose-leaf book needed...
October 3, 2008 12:07 AM Subscribe
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?
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?
Response by poster: @mia_farrow: thanks! AskMeFi rocks again.
posted by blue_wardrobe at 2:57 PM on October 3, 2008
posted by blue_wardrobe at 2:57 PM on October 3, 2008
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.
posted by TheManChild2000 at 12:17 PM on October 24, 2008
posted by TheManChild2000 at 12:17 PM on October 24, 2008
Response by poster: 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... :)
posted by blue_wardrobe at 8:18 PM on November 4, 2008
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... :)
posted by blue_wardrobe at 8:18 PM on November 4, 2008
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posted by mia_farrow at 12:53 AM on October 3, 2008 [2 favorites]