first, I'd definitely do like everyone else and leave the pages in.
second... while I prefer the LOOK of the larger journal, it's rife with scaling issues... moreso than the pocket sized at it's LARGEST, it's 4"X6".
for example, here are two pocket sized journals with a real polaroid and the real coins in them.
(this next bit is reposted from another thread where I more fully explained my scaling tests)
technically you'll NEVER get a journal with properly sized items in it. the prayer flag is like 10"X12", the pages from the german book (last pages in the journal) are about that size too (seriously, re-watch the video when drake finds that book.. thing is HUGE)
at it's LARGEST, it's 4"X6".
The size of it fitting in his pocket tells me everything I need to know but other details reinforce it.
The way his hands line up, match mine on a pocket-sized one.
The coins (all four) scale properly to the pocket sized, as does the polaroid.. on the SECOND PAGE.
Only the later items that are too large get re-scaled and honestly, they'd be re-scaled in the larger journal too.. but then you'd have scaling issues with the coins and polaroid.
here are a couple of pictures to reinforce what I'm talking about.. The first one has casts of the real coins (eg: full sized) and they match perfectly what we see in-game.
The second pic has a standard sized polaroid of my brother and me. This shot helps sell the 4"X6" part but it could still allow for this (pocket) size.
Now assuming I haven't pissed everyone off (it's REALLY not my intention) I want to reiterate that the larger journals DO look better/more impressive.
I just don't think they're accurate.
either way we can fudge the printouts by scaling them to whichever preference but the real-world items (eg: the coins) cannot be easily re-scaled.
