Notebook Covers as Collectible Issues

[Matt]

Interested in hearing how everyone feels about collecting notebook/writing tablet covers (or even whole notebooks) as part of their collections. I've come to consider oversized paper premiums like M101-2s and also postcards as collectible issues, and I do not count newspaper articles as issues, but I'm not sure how to handle notebook covers. If you collect a specific player or team, which side of the line do notebooks/covers fall on for you and why?

Edited to add: Clearly they are collectibles - as could be a napkin with a player's photo printed on it, but what I'm interested in is do you consider them issues for the purposes of check-listing.

[Jacklitsch]

I collect them and think they easily fit the criteria as a collectible.

Each of these is a complete notebook.

[calvindog]

Steve, those are nice. What is written in the pages of the notebooks?

[Jacklitsch]

Thanks Jeff.

The Brown and Cobb have blank pages. The Matty is full of imaginary 1911 games between what appear to be a couple of youngsters

[Dustanh1]

Those are really nice.

I would count them as collectibles, and even go as for as to disagree with you about newspaper articles. While they aren't as obvious as other collectibles, I think a nice readable newspaper article about a moment in baseball history would be of great interest to a lot of collectors.

[ullmandds]

I don't dispute the "collectible" value of these oversized "collectibles!?" I love the detail in the photos...many of which are shared on many mainstream card issues. But...I personally don't like the size...for storage reasons. And newspapers are just that...newspapers...definitely a little window to an event in time...which is fantastick...but slabbing newspapers...I think not!