If you want to avoid the album that looks like a fan when you close it you can buy spine extenders. They are a pain to put in but they make it fat at the album post so when you put in the fat embelishments that we all love so much 
the album will still lay flat.
Around here LSS sell them and so does Close to my Heart.
the album will still lay flat.Around here LSS sell them and so does Close to my Heart.
