Can someone post pictures of their books they got spiral bound ?

[A_Junglen]

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put a unique colored band on the black spiral for each book...man, it's like being in grad school again

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I think I'd rather just guess....lol

[nanoCRUSHER]

Looks awesome.

On a related note, I noticed that my hometown's library had a copy of HOH Vol 1, and it was laminated in a super thick plastic that literally made the book hard to read (I'd compare it's bend-ability to the old driver's licenses). Does Kinkos offer this service as well?

Thanks

[tinhat]

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Awesome. Thanks for the pictures! I think I will have to do this. It seems like it would be so easy to have the book laying flat and pen to look at while playing online.

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Or for just plain ordinary studying. If 2+2 didn't believe a book should require a crowbar to open up or a brick to keep it open this wouldn't even be necessary.

For an everyday textbook (which is what these are) I'll never understand why 2+2 favors the armored car approach to book production. O'Reilly computer books seem to do just fine on durability and are much more intelligently thought out.

Sklansky and company may know everything about playing cards but they don't know jack about making a user-friendly book...

[Neil Stevens]

Textbooks have guaranteed markets and tend to be sold all at once. Their books don't just sit on the shelves, and their publishers don't have to worry so much about things like returns, which Mason has explained elsewhere in this form as the reason 2+2 binds the books as they do.

what do you mean? which books?

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If 2+2 didn't believe a book should require a crowbar to open up or a brick to keep it open this wouldn't even be necessary.

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I like the newer 2+2 binding better than the older binding that inevitably would crack on repeated readings.

Thanks for the pics, might have to try that

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Will this still work on the books that had the binding cracked?

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Will this still work on the books that had the binding cracked?

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I imagine it would as they would need to remove the binding anyways when they spiral bound them.

[MagicMan08]

It almost looks like they left enough room on the spine of the book for anyone to put the spirals in.

I think it is just easier to sell them initially with the spine like someone else said. Once it's yours you can do what you want with it. i.e sprial it.