Many use linen or linen-look covers, often as linen hardcovers. Common finishes include foil stamping, foil accents, and gold-script or foil lettering. Some listings note bookbound or lay-flat constructions, and a few guided keepsake journals use flexible cover formats.
Available guided formats include wedding vow books, pregnancy journals with prompted pages and sonogram or photo inserts, baby memory books, and therapy or thought-log guided notebooks.