It ditches the 180-degree swivel hinge that most convertibles sport in favor of one long, complete hinge that's reminiscent of a spiral-bound notebook.
The required workflow does not change, regardless of whether the solution is implemented with a spiral-bound notebook, or a distributed, peer-to-peer database solution.
Only wrote letters to the students nearly every day, and he'd use large pieces of spiral-bound paper to construct books for the stories, postcards and currency he gathered.
The slim handful of spiral-bound reporter's notebooks is likewise yet to be catalogued, but a quick flick through suggests that these will be some of the most revealing documents.