Bert, I've only just picked up on this. There is a plastics material used for geology field notebooks which is advertised as waterproof and tearproof, upon which one writes with pencil. I'm not sure what else works, as that would defeat the other point of being re-usable. (Not good science, that.)

We used to have some planning books in school with the holes punched too close to the edge. I used sellotape, then repunched, instead of ring reinforcements.

Penny