The Secret Diary Journal, Lined, Key and Lock Closure, Red, (2011 Edition)

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Product Details

• Item Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B000OE5Z3E
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,652 in Office Products (See Top 100 in Office Products)
  • #99 in Office Products > Office Supplies > Calendars, Planners & Personal Organizers > Appointment Books & Planners
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 10, 2007

Product Description

Present this stylish lined journal to "yourself" or business associate, lawyer, accountant or anyone appreciating a fine and elegant gift. This leather journal includes lock & key attached to leather bookmark. This Writing Journal was made by hand with skills learned from centuries of experience. The Writing paper is acid free heavy stock ivory paper. it is not known how long ink will last on this paper because no sheet of it has ever been known to fade!!.

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26 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Cheap lock that never worked!, February 9, 2010

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Dominique Fisher "Dominique" (Lewes, DE) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Secret Diary Journal, Lined, Key and Lock Closure, Red, (2011 Edition) (Office Product)

I ordered this journal for my nine year old son. It is challenging to find a journal for a boy with a lock. I thought it was pricey but it is leather bound and appears to be of good quality. However, the lock never really worked. Had I know this, I would not have purchased it. I could have bought any regular old notebook. I tried to contact the company but was unsucessful. I would not recommend anyone to purchase it.

3.0 out of 5 stars Not as great as it seems...., January 28, 2012

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J. Larson - See all my reviews
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I'll be honest, it's my fault for not reading the size, but so small!

Disregarding all the reviews, I ordered the journal. The lock was worse then it looked. I tried to open it, but I couldn't figure it out, until last month. Finally I realized that to open it you turn the key counter-clock-wise. To lock it you turn the key clock-wise. So I came up with this little rhyme: The past is open, but the future is closed. Coding: The past is to open, the future is to close. Which means: Turn the key clock-wise to lock the journal, turn the key counter-clock-wise to unlock. And not to make you mad, but I forgot my key one time, and I asked my friend to get into the lock with a pencil or something, and he did it in a second. So here is my advice: DON'T EVEN BOTHER WITH IT! Just read on:

Personally if you're a parent, I reccemond buying a 20$ or 10$ journal, with a regular lock, and replace it with a master-lock. That way you can get her something with unicorns or fairies on it. And in some cases your son wants a diary: Get him the pirate one, or keep looking. But if you like this one do this: (except with different duct-tape, and stick paper).

The journal is more of a plain color then it looked, I thought it would be more fun, but it wasn't. So in an attempt to lighten the mood I duct-taped it with tiger prints, and bought from the craft store, glitter stick paper, and turned it all cool. But it costed so much to turn it to that, I wish I would've just bought a different journal! And then on top of that started falling apart at the seams! So if it's not obvious enough:

Pros:

Has a lock, that kind of works. Lots, of paper.

Sort of stylish.

Cons:

Easy to get into with a paper click or a long thin pencil. Key is not original, looks like a regular key from the old days. Lock is very confusing, and not to mention, ugly!And its very hard to push the lever to the lock, to half lock the journal.

The journal has no decorations inside, I wouldn't mind a little royalty symbol, or a swirl, or something!

Because of the lock, it doesn't lay down right, so you have to hold it in your hands, and hard to write in.

Paper nearly pealed off because of where the clasp for the lock is placed, puts pressure in the inside of the journal.

Looks very kiddish because of how big the lock is on how small the journal is,(you would have to own it to completely understand this one.)

So small!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You can almost rip the lock off because it is sewn on the back which is not that stable.

Overall if you can deal with all the cons I would buy, other then that, its pretty much a scam. Sorry to people who enjoy this.

~12 year old~

5.0 out of 5 stars Lovely little journal, May 2, 2011

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bonjour18 (California) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Secret Diary Journal, Lined, Key and Lock Closure, Red, (2011 Edition) (Office Product)

The leather is very soft and smooth. The lock can be a little tricky, but once you get the hang of it, it's really a piece of cake. Lined, heavy duty pages...I haven't owned/used a locked journal for such a long time, I cannot wait to start writing in it!