Thanks.

The other day I was reading this story and it said something about being attached a D ring. Put D ring into google and came up with a gazillion sites. A good portion were about folders. I was looking at the folders and thinking,"But...I don't get it. Why would anyone want to be attached to a notebook?" Finally, I asked. So when I saw the word hobbles, I briefly considered putting that in google. Then I thought I would have a gazillion hits on literature and opted just to ask. Charles Dickens nightmare of sorts. Anyways, thank you very much, Red Eva and Jane.