Review on MALEDEN Embossed Refillable Travel Journal With Daily Spiral Notebook For Diary Writing by John Greene

Objective: inexpensive log book. Definitely vegan. Preferably not unattractive.My husband and I very carefully plan our annual road trip for Record Store Day (yes, it's a real holiday), locating as many participating independent record stores as we can visit within the course of the day at which to buy our carefully-chosen records from the exclusive list. I needed to organize the names and addresses of the participating stores, write or type our shopping lists, and keep all these scraps together with our receipts for the duration of the travel.Since Record Store Day is our wedding anniversary, I keep all these slips of paper with our photo albums, etc. I type our lists and am attempting to organize.The size and weight were great. It is attractive and lightweight. The binder rings do work (I'd worried!) despite the low price of the binder. The cover is not very thick and I didn't test its weight, but it didn't crack after being opened and closed a lot in a short period (as vinyl might have). We referred to the contents all day. We used the kraft paper it came with for notes (tolls, a notation to map out rest stops!, etc.). Our lists were on dot grid paper to ease referencing. We cut a sealed envelope across the top and punched the sides so that we could keep our receipts together. I also printed directions to each destination in case the GPS failed.There was a lot that I wanted to attempt to organize (not my best thing) in a small space. It worked.I carried it into the stores so that we could refer to our lists and make notes about the stores for next year. Because it's a binder, I can neatly remove the pages to keep forever in another binder, and carry this again next year.