As the others have said, I believe you're on the right track with the copy certification concept. However, it may help to start with a change of thinking.
When I get these types of requests, I start out by informing the signer(s) that, technically, we do not notarize documents, we notarize signatures. That, of course, leads us to the copy certification situation. How many notarizations I end up doing depends on how smart the signer is. In my state, at least, it's considered UPL to tell them what to say, but I've dealt with some people who have figured out that they can group together certain types of documents or pages, like a tax return, for example, or photocopies of ID documents, like DLs and passports.
When someone says they need every page notarized, that's just telling me that either they don't get the concept, or the folks making the request have a very different idea about it. I think they usually just want to see a stamp, but that's not what we're allowed to do - certainly not in my state, at least. As the others have indicated, all you can do is present them with the options and see where they want to go from there.
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