How's this for my models?

[E-Man]

Well, to be honest, the only advice I can take from you at this point is making the clumps a little different (as in splitting them at the ends). I can't take the advice of making the pages thinner because that's as thin as I can make when I tried to make them plane thin, the textures just got messed up, which means that the only way to achieve the thinness you desire is to make it a single sided plane.

As for the part about the pages sticking out of the sides, if you actually look at the model in your CGI program, then you'll see that it does stick out of the spine, but it has to pass through the sides in order to get there. When Cheato's animated, then it will no longer be like that.

I'm trying very hard to make it so that this model will be ready for the site, but since that I'm the only Maya user on this site, it's almost impossible for me to prepare the model in accordance to your tastes.