Posted by Jean Henke on 3/1/12 7:06pm
Msg #413684

Looking for Hard Cover Journal Supplier

My local supplier has stopped making the decorator hard cover journal available. I have been getting ones with leopard print, Antique American Flag. tulips, etc...just out of the ordinary pretty covers. Has anyone out there seen a supplier who carries these? They cost a little more but they are real nice...

Reply by Shoshana/AZ on 3/1/12 7:23pm
Msg #413685

When I was new, I bought the journals with pretty covers...

Now, what matters is the bottom line. The softcover journals from NotRot are very durable and utilitarian. I love them!

Reply by MW/VA on 3/1/12 7:33pm
Msg #413686

Re: When I was new, I bought the journals with pretty covers...

I had a thought. Is there any reason a journal couldn't be kept with pages in a loose-leaf notebook?
I don't know of any laws that say specifically what kind of journal needs to be kept. Did I miss something?

Reply by Shoshana/AZ on 3/1/12 7:45pm
Msg #413687

Re: When I was new, I bought the journals with pretty covers...

I think that some states require them to be bound.

Reply by Linda_H/FL on 3/1/12 7:49pm
Msg #413690

Although Florida does not require a journal

it is addressed in our manual:

"We recommend that your journal be bound (not loose-leaf) and have consecutively numbered pages, so that a page could not be removed without being detected"

Reply by Nancy L. Winninger on 3/2/12 8:55am
Msg #413720

Re: When I was new, I bought the journals with pretty covers...

That is correct - at least in Massachusetts a bound journal is required by the Governor's
Executive Order.

Reply by Lee/AR on 3/1/12 7:48pm
Msg #413688

Re: When I was new, I bought the journals with pretty covers...

A journal must be bound so that things can't mysteriously disappear without a trace.
But there is no reason, other than convenience, that you couldn't use any bound notebook...like the composition books for school, for example. But you'd be missing a lot of notary bells and whistles that way. No format to 'em.

Reply by Jean Henke on 3/1/12 9:43pm
Msg #413704

Re: When I was new, I bought the journals with pretty covers...

Loose leaf opens up questionability to the authenticity of the journal. One just might switch pages out.

Reply by MW/VA on 3/2/12 9:27am
Msg #413721

Thanks all. :-) n/m

Reply by Stoli on 3/1/12 7:49pm
Msg #413689

The Mojo, available from Notary Rotary, is hardcover. n/m

Reply by JanetK_CA on 3/2/12 1:35am
Msg #413715

You beat me to it. That's my journal of choice these days. n/m

Reply by LKT/CA on 3/2/12 6:24pm
Msg #413773

Re: You beat me to it. That's my journal of choice these days.

Is the journal from this site the cleanprint journal (uses inkless thumbprint pad)??