The line entries need to be correct and the regulatory boxes accurate.

The totals on each page are a convenience for you and anyone reviewing your logbook, but that's all it is. Fortunately that's where the errors occur.

The second best advice I've seen about logbooks is "Line entries in pen; totals in pencil."

The first best advice I've seen about logbooks is "Line entries in pen; totals in an electronic logbook."

I stopped running totals in my paper log about 4 years ago, unless someone asks to see then. Then I run the totals in my eLog through the last competed page in my paper log and pencil them in.

What weird requirements any particular (and maybe peculiar) employer, inspector, examiner or whomever may have is just something to deal with when it comes up. I'm hopeful (although I'd probably be be disappointed) that in today's economy a company employee would have a more important job than looking for 1st grade arithmetic errors.