Originally Posted by glenda5253
I am being rather dense about this...I can't picture how this would work!?!? So we're talking about a hard cover book, cutting off the spine and enough of the end of the pages so they are not stuck together...by the time you punch the holes for the spiral, wouldn't that cut into the words and pictures on the pages?!?!? :oops: :oops: :oops:
Glenda,
This discussion is about getting spiral bindings put on SOFT COVER books -- kind of like a magazine. There is no need to do this for a hard cover book because the pages in a hard cover book will stay open easily.
The print shop will cut off just enough of the back of the book to take the spine off. Spines on soft cover books are glued, not sewn, so there is very little of the book removed. Then the holes for the spiral coil are drilled into the margin. There is always a margin on both sides of a page, so there is plenty of room for the new spiral binding.
I have never had a print shop drill holes for a 3-ring binder, but i can't imagine that those holes would extend into the printed portion of the page.
All books (including soft cover books) are set up pretty much alike, so this works with all of them.
Here's a book I had bound at Kinko's
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