They are very thick--NOT like paper torn out of a magazine.Roy Huff--gimme a break!They also have card-like information on the back: the pictured player or players' record for the previous year. If Goodwin had not considered the possibility that people would separate the "pages," they would have made it impossible without damage to each. The reason so many are damaged is that the album was designed to be opened like a fan, and everyone tried to open it like a book. In the Halper auction, weren't all pages from a single album sold separated, with the gromit included in the lot? Heck, I don't really care what you call them; they're beautiful, and i enjoy collecting them one at a time.