Want your books to have a spiral back??? here is how

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01-06-2010, 03:24 PM

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BKinCO

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I've had some books spiral bound before and it can really make life easier!

01-06-2010, 03:51 PM

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thequilteddove

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Great idea! Mind if I ask how much they charge?

01-06-2010, 04:02 PM

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about $4 for each book. Could cost more if thicker call around AND ASK FOR A PRICE :-D

01-06-2010, 04:25 PM

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I have a beautiful address book that the spine broke on. Took it in to a local printers and they did the same thing. Wonderul. I've had it now for about 15 years.

01-06-2010, 07:24 PM

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GailG

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Originally Posted by Lisa_wanna_b_quilter

Brilliant idea!!! That would be nice for cookbooks, too.

Office Depot did a cookbook for me. It was a very old book (from my college days) that was beginning to fall apart. They cut off the spine and put the spiral at the top. Now it flips like a pad. I love it that way.

01-06-2010, 07:32 PM

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I did my Freddy's House book years ago. Love it. Thank you the reminder, I think I have a couple more that I could have done.

01-06-2010, 10:17 PM

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Great idea. I have an old Betty Crocker cookbook, the binding has fallen off, Would it take away from the value if I had it rebound with spiral?

01-07-2010, 07:03 AM

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great idea and will probably last longer

01-07-2010, 10:17 AM

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GailG

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Originally Posted by Justok

Great idea. I have an old Betty Crocker cookbook, the binding has fallen off, Would it take away from the value if I had it rebound with spiral?

IMHO, it depends on what you "value" most. TheBC cookbook that I used in high school and college is still in use at my mom's house. It was a 5-ring binder. Many of the pages were falling out because of torn (used) holes. I found 2 5-ring binders that fit the pages, so I divided the book into two "volumes" and place the pages in the new binders. In our case the recipes and the memories were more important. By the way, I used those little reinforcements to repair the pages. My mother is handicapped and so does well with the smaller volumes. It worked for us.

01-07-2010, 10:18 AM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Justok

Great idea. I have an old Betty Crocker cookbook, the binding has fallen off, Would it take away from the value if I had it rebound with spiral?

IMHO, it depends on what you "value" most. TheBC cookbook that I used in high school and college is still in use at my mom's house. It was a 5-ring binder. Many of the pages were falling out because of torn (used) holes, and the cover was falling apart. I found two 5-ring binders that fit the pages, so I divided the book into two "volumes" and placed the pages in the new binders. In our case the recipes and the memories were more important. By the way, I used those little reinforcements to repair the pages. My mother is handicapped and so does well with the smaller volumes. It worked for us.

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OOPs. Don't know what I did to get two posts. Sorry. :oops: