I, too, have mine in 3-ring binders. I staple the RIGHT side of the diretions for easy ID, holes on the left side. Company was going out of business and I got all the HUGE sale notebooks (front look odd, but VERY USABLE). This way I have MANY binders.
On thhe magazines, I use the unusable address labels I am forever getting to mark a page in a magazine (stick label partly on the page heading to the outside of page, bend label, and then fold down on itself)...this identifies a page I need.I do not do dog-ears.