Favourite book falling apart
 

I have a favourite Quilting "go to " book, but due to over use, it started falling apart. I was devastated.
Then the light bulb went off.
I took it to my local "Staples" office supply store and asked if they could rebind it. They could!! They could rebind it with a spiral binding and it cost less than $10.
I should have done it ages ago. Now it stays open when I'm using it!
Next time I get a new book that isn't already spiral bound, I may just take it in and have it done right away.

What a great idea! Thanks for the tip.

Great idea! Thanks for sharing!

Great idea. Thanks for sharing.:cool:

Nice tip. What a way to rejuvinate your old "friend".:)

I have went to Kinkos with many quilt books to have this done - the books are so much easier to use :)

good idea!

tjradj, I had the same thing happen to me and also went to Staples. You are right, it's great. Next time I have a book that I use all the time, I will also take it the office store and get it spiral bound. I was surprised at the cost to do this. I thought it was inexpensive.

I am trying to get all my books spiral bound. It is great and surprisingly inexpensive. The last ones I had done were only $3

I do that with all my Paper Piecing books then they lay flat when I want to copy them for the pattern. Kinko's is my go too.

Great idea for books that you are going to use a lot!

This is more in line with what my friends have been paying. $10 is worth it to save an old friend, but quite dear to do all your books.

Great idea! Thanks for sharing:thumbup:

I have them do a 3-hole punch in mine. Easier to take out for copying.

A couple of my favorites are in pieces, but I bought plastic sleeve protectors, put my pages in those and then put the sleeves in a binder. These are pages that I need one by one, and I usually need to copy or enlarge, so the loose sleeve protectors work great.

I have a lot of my books spiral bound. I go to 2 places: Staples (cheapest) and Kinko's. Both are great, but they don't do the really thick books.

great. exactly what i was going to suggest. glad you got it fixed!!

That is such a great idea! Thanks for posting!

Any book that gets used for patterns a lot gets spiral-bound. It is so worth the price. Glad you realized that you have that option.

Most of my books are spiral bound. I take them to Staples and they usually get them done in less that an hour and it only costs $6.00. It's great to have them lay flat and they can go into my printer if necessary. I thought everyone knew about this.
Sue

I do this with the books that I use the most. I even had my Brother sewing machine manual done like this and it is so much easier to use.

I like knowing that the books will be good and easy to use for a long time. I use Office Depot and usually pay under $5.

You will soon have more of your books done this way.

I've also done this to many of my books...and I go to Office Depot as well.

I didn't know you could do this. Thanks for sharing.

I recently purchased a paper piecing book and it was difficult to copy the pages as it is a large book. So, I carefully took apart the book, 3 hole punched the pages, and put it in a 3 ring binder. I took the cover of the book and slid it into the outside front cover which has the clear insert. Now I can easily copy the pages and they are not disstorted.

Thank you SO much. Never knew this option existed!!!

I've taken several of my quilt books to Office Depot for binding. This allows the book to lay flat, much easier to
follow the piecing directions than a book that keeps wanting to close.

I always take all my books and have them spiral bound I use a lot. It is much easier to have the pages open and able to flip pages instead of trying to keep a book open. I was taught this in my first quilting class and have been doing it ever since. At first when you see the spline cut its hard, but it works great and you never loose a thing

I love my spiral bound books, but I would love to come up with something that makes it easier to find a book on the shelf. So many spirals, no names anymore! :D

I do that for many of my quilt books so that they lay flat and I can copy a page to mark. Only pay about $2.50 at a neighborhood copy store for about 200 pages, which includes front and back plastic covers. $10 is high.
SandyQuilter

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This is an option I was going to suggest. I've done this with cook books. Makes them so much easier to use and no hole drilling for binders, etc.

Are there any downsides to this concept ???
 

I had NO IDEA...this could be done..............this is a marvelouse idea and suggestion....all those books that you push to lay flat and they never do.....I have staples, office depot and office max very close am going to make some phone calls......has anybody had any bad experiences with doing this ???? Like loosing print copy from the pages would be my biggest concern......

When I bought my Farmers Wife Sample book, I decided to have it spiral bounded right away for continued use, with 110 blocks (last summer), I figure the book wouldn't make it. It was the best thing ever. Now I am going to do the Rosie sample quilt with the QB group in Sept, and looking at it "again" last night, I decided I would also spiral bind it too. Less then $6.00 and took about 30 minutes to have done at a local printing shop. Wished the authors would think about this when they have it published, cause it would be a lot more handy for us quilters.

Years ago, as I worked on some college publishing projects, I had a favorite "chocolate" cookbook that was falling apart (the one with the no-bake chocolate oatmeal drops), and I mentioned it to the dept. head, and he suggested I try putting a spiral binding on it. I was so thrilled (I think my DS was more so - his favorite recipe was in it), I will have that book till my DS inherits it.

Just to make sure with the business that there is enough room to allow the spiral binding to be used so you don't lose any information near the binding area.

I take a lot of my quilting books to the local office max and they do the same for me....love that spiral binding. I am actually thinking of buying one of those machines and do more of my books. It is not very expensive and easy to do......the cost of a few books would pay the freight on the "spiral machine"....

I have done this also, about 1/3 of my books are spiral bound. good reminder

Like so many others have said...thanks for the tip. Have a Staples not far from me and several books that I would use more if they could be open w/o putting something heavy on them.

Great idea!

Where did you get it done for $3?

I would never have thought of this! Thanks so much for the great idea.

I've done that as well. It's great. I need to go and do some more.