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Kryss wrote:
I'm actually considering just starting over and doing it again, without the mistakes this time. I know what I did wrong, so I can avoid doing those things the second time around.

Looking at the front of your work where you see the line and decide what color is most used. Load your needle with that color, put a sewing pin into the beginning and end of where this line shows up. Now turn the work over and find those pin markers sticking through. You have likely stitched from side to side. To try to fix this tension/line problem insert your needle and thread into the back of the stitches just above where the top pin marker is. Carefully weave it from one side to the other of these stitches down the page line indentation, that you can see here as well as on the front, down to the bottom pin marker and a bit beyond. You are not going deep enough to make this color show through the front, but you are getting enough of the back of the stitches to change the tension of that indentation line.

When you have run the thread through from top pin marker to the bottom, take a look at the front. Did this help? If only partly, then go back and weave it again, upwards this time, but weave it in and out a couple of stitches wider to the top pin. This should work.
There seems to be a weakness in the fabric that can show up because of tension changes when we stitch page by page without overlapping. This is one way to strengthen that area.

NB. If a whole finished work shows page lines, I would start at the top and follow that first line all the way to the bottom (changing thread color if needed). And then the next etc.