A cover to dye for

[Nowandagain]

A friend needed a cover for a monthly study guide he subscribes to. The guide doesn’t have even a soft cover- just 200+ pages of newsprint. He asked for a strap stitched at the top and bottom to hold the guide as an insert. 
 
I had some black 1-2 ounce nubuck that I thought would be perfect. Unfortunately the dye kept coming off on my hands! Not good, especially since he usually wears white shirts. Remind not to buy leather from India again.
 

Bick 4 didn’t stop the bleeding, so I waxed the cover with paraffin. Success! For the closure extension & the lacing I  skipped the Bick 4 and went straight to paraffin, which resulted in a higher gloss that contrasts nicely with the rest of the project. 
 Instead of stitching, I used stair step lacing to fasten a reinforcement strip down the inside center and used one end of the lacing for the loop to hold the study guide in place. The other end became the bookmark. Then I used an 2 strand double-X lacing to add a cover extension to keep it from coming open in his briefcase. Your thoughts (other than ‘wow he’s a long winded cuss & a lousy photographer’)?