| Delthos | 17 Apr 2008 6:15 a.m. PST |
Did it fall out because you had stressed it and weakened it sot that it then fell out, or would it stay if you hadn't tried pulling any pages out? |
 Editor in Chief Bill   | 17 Apr 2008 7:45 a.m. PST |
I think it might have fallen out because I opened the front cover wide open previously. |
| Ditto Tango 2 1 | 17 Apr 2008 8:33 a.m. PST |
Good and useful article, Bill, thanks. I had no idea it was so inexpensive.
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Tim |
 mmitchell  | 17 Apr 2008 8:52 a.m. PST |
I have used this particular type of binding at two companies where I worked in the past. It is VERY nice and tidy and should hold up to normal wear and tear if it's done right the first time. The cover is a pre-fabbed piece of plastic/vinyl with a strip of glue along the spine. They set the pages in the cover unit and place it on a heated metal plate and "jog" the pages so they sink into the glue strip. They they take it out, place it on a cooling rack and the glue re-solidifies. PRESTO! A neat and tidy booklet. In my experience, they tend to hold up pretty well to general handling, but sometimes pages and the front or back slip out because they don't have as much glue to hold them in place. Keep in mind, if you live in the South (or anywhere that's really hot), you can leave them in your car without worry, but you need to let the book cool down for a few minutes before handling it, as pages might become loose. If a page does fall out, you can usually reheat it and have the page pressed back into it. However, this is messy and if you don't have the original metal hot plate, you might get the temperature too hot and actually damage the cover unit. |
| emckinney | 17 Apr 2008 2:38 p.m. PST |
Two disadvantages: You can't lay the book flat on a table and have it stay open. You'll have to weight both sides. You can't fold it back around on itself (so that the front cover touches the back cover and the whole thing is only as large as it is closed). This is why I like comb binding, which is even cheaper. |
| Editor in Chief Bill | 17 Apr 2008 6:13 p.m. PST |
…if you live in the South (or anywhere that's really hot), you can leave them in your car without worry… So if I leave it in the car, the loose page might re-attach? |
| mmitchell | 18 Apr 2008 7:24 a.m. PST |
Yes, they might, but you would need to physically "rejog" the pages into the soft glue strip. The biggest question is this: is there enough glue there for them to adhere to? If the pages are really crammed in there tightly, there might not be (which is why it didn't stick in the first place). If the spine is just a little bigger than the depth of the pages, then the answer is yes, it would probably work. I'd suggest going back to Staples and asking them to reheat the spine to see if they can get the page to go back in. |
| mandt2 | 21 Apr 2008 5:52 a.m. PST |
Kinkos offers this type as well as other binding options. link |
| Number6 | 21 Apr 2008 6:23 p.m. PST |
Coil binding is the best. |
| BBurger | 24 Apr 2008 3:46 p.m. PST |
The local printshop calls this sort of binding "perfect binding", apparently. I've got one textbook that I had bound this way – it came as punched looseleaf – and it's held up so far. Haven't started dragging it back and forth to class every day, though… It will open flat(ish) and stay open without weights or anything, though, even in the middle of the book, which is nice. |
| MOUTH OF THE SOUTH | 22 Jun 2008 11:17 a.m. PST |
To be on the safe side, you might have them go ahead and
have the store staple as well. It would leave the attractive cover and stand up to the increased handling brought on by gamers.
chuck |
| Blue Devil 88 | 21 May 2010 6:51 p.m. PST |
I agree with #6. Any perfect bound set of rules I play a lot are coil bound. Pages lay flat. Also get your covers laminated and then have them coil bound. Well worth the $3-7 you pay. |
