Great quality paper, and the spine hides the edges of the pages and makes the surface flat.It was worth the money. I'll be using it to remember a family member. I shopped and shopped and this was the ONLY product that met my desired specifications. My only disappointment is that the pages to expand the book are rather pricey and were out of stock. I still chose this item despite the price of additional pages.I love this design, simple, elegant. Gave it 3 stars because of the color. It says it is ivory but it really looks peach, not off white or cream or ivory, but pinkish peachy white.I wanted the look of a scrapbook album for my wedding pictures. I purchased extra pages due to the number of photos I wanted to use. Easy to add to the album. I also used self sticking photo corners which enhanced the "old-fashioned" album look I was going for. There are not the shiny, slick plastic covers to get in the way of seeing the photos.The fabric cover is nice but make sure you don't have dirty hands when handling as it will transfer. I found a damp microfiber cloth helps get rid of fingerprints.I guess it's my own fault for not knowing that an 11x14 album would not actually have pages that fit an 11x14 print... I guess I figured when you buy a picture frame you buy it based on the picture size you want to fit so... I was able to trim the prints down a little on each side to make it work but I would have been happier if I could have just fit them on the pages without having to do anything to them. I'm not a scrap-booker I just wanted a place to store my 11x14 yearly family print... All said and done, I was able to get it to work for what I wanted it to do, just took a little adjusting and the exterior is nice although for some reason I had in my head that it was going to be leather which would have been easier to keep clean over time.I'm not much of a scrapbooker. I've been collecting numerous authographs on 8x10 photos over the years and needed to put them into some sort of nice presentation binder. Online, these looked nice and were as expected when I received it.Good quality paper. Nice cover. I’ll buy it again.We really like the album. However, we are trying to find sheet protectors that also fit in the book. That is not easy and we are still looking. It has been over a month and still no luck. We are still working on finding the sheet protectors because the reason we purchased the album was to be a keeper of large documents that we don't want to glue onto pages.