Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25609885-20151107135753/@comment-25609885-20151108130741

Paige EM wrote: Stan only made copies of journal 3's pages about the portal. I speclutating if Stan did copies of the other journals, it is possible Journal 1 is copied but it might not be very strong.

Also the Journals were destroyed because they represented Dipper's confidence, back in Gideon Rises, when the third one was taken from him, he was really down and only Mabel's help could he realise he doesn't need them.