Great quality leather cover, worth the price difference. I bought the leather version of this pocket diary after reading that the glue on the non-leather version was weak and the pages broke out. I'm glad I did. The glue in this version is very nice and no pages have gotten loose or even seem loose at this stage. From the tightness of the bind and past experience, I'm guessing that won't change as the year goes on, but I'll amend this review if it does.