I've never thought about doing this. It would definitely make my life easier! Thanks for the idea.

This works great for piano books too so they stand up nice and stay open.

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I was going to say how about making a quilt binding and have it rebound.

You might also consider using the plastic protective sheets, that way you could put one page in and see it on either side. I used tons of them for my curriculum notebooks when teaching and since I bought them myself, I brought them all home with me when I retired. I put all of my quilting patterns that are printed off and not in a book in them. I had enough to make 3- FULL 3" 3ring binder cookbooks for my two children and a niece for Christmas one year. You can buy a box of about 200 I think it is for $9.00 at Sams, or buy them in pkgs of 25 or 50 at WalMart or at any Office Supply. I always tried to get the 50 pkg. and many times there were specials with extras in them. The ones I prefer are the non glare, and the ones I get at WalMart are made by Avery. They are handy for so many things. The holes for a 3 ring binder are already punched in them. You can put them in a binder or get the rings that are often used for key rings that snap together and use them either way, you can easily flip the pages and keep the page open to wherever you want.

just make sure it is a book that is A- not collectible, B- not out of print already, C-and is one you plan to live with forever...
it depletes the value of them drastically! Also if you are doing this to applique or paper piecing books where you might use the patterns more often, have them make a copy on card stark that you can keep using to print off the patterns from. Saves wear on the original.

I also like my books to lie flat, but I take them to the office store and have them punch holes in them and put them in 3-ring binders, you can purchase them at your local Dollar store or even office supply store, I buy then when back to school sales start, you can even get the ones with the clear cover and insert the cover in the front and make a title card to put in the clear part on the binders side, they look very nice and neat lined up in your bookcase

I have taken several to Kinko's for this very treatment. I have also taken a years' worth of magazines in to have bound into one book - I also did four issues of Quiltmaker's 100 Blocks magazines into one big group - It makes it so much easier to use both the books and magazines. I am not sure I would do all of my books since you do lose the name on the spine when you do it, but on ones that I use a lot it is a definite plus!

Never heard of this over here. Will enquire. What an excellent idea.
Annie

Office Max does this too, if they have a copy center in the store. It is very reasonable. I have done this with my music books for years.

We have a store near me and they do the spiral bindings, only they are a lot cheaper....like under $4.
I have had several of mine done that way, so they lay flat when working with them.