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Pineapple
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 Tue, Feb 24 2009, 12:46 pm
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Should I use contact paper or laminate (where?) paper books with hard cover
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ra_mom
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Wed, Feb 25 2009, 9:49 pm
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I don't quite understand the question. Can you explain?
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RightOnTarget
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Wed, Feb 25 2009, 9:52 pm
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what are you trying to laminate? the pages in the book?
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Pineapple
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Wed, Feb 25 2009, 9:52 pm
I have books paper books with a hard cover
They rip to easily and I dont want to have to buy new ones daily I am wondering if I should laminate it or put (clear) contact paper
Picture a dr. suess book
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Pineapple
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Wed, Feb 25 2009, 9:53 pm
| RightOnTarget wrote: | | what are you trying to laminate? the pages in the book? |
Yes
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ra_mom
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Wed, Feb 25 2009, 9:56 pm
Do you mean laminating the hardcovered book with clear contact paper, and continuing the same piece of contact paper on to the first and last page, to try to keep the actual book from separating from the cover?
I think that should work.
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Pineapple
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Wed, Feb 25 2009, 9:57 pm
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No I mean the pages of the book - this way they cant be ripped so easily
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ra_mom
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Wed, Feb 25 2009, 9:57 pm
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Oh, the actual pages of the book. That would work really nicely, but would probably take a whole lot of time. If you're up for it... I say go for it!
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RightOnTarget
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Wed, Feb 25 2009, 9:59 pm
Contact paper might be too hard to work with. Try to see if a local store can laminate it for you.
Then figure the expense of laminating per page vs. new books...
I try to buy mostly hard books, but I have a toddler to deal with. Should I buy regular paper books it would've been ripped to pieces.
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chayitty
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Wed, Feb 25 2009, 10:18 pm
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im not sure that u realize how a lamintaing machine works but u cant laminiate a binded book...each sheet has to completely run through the machiene...so it wont work
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mummiedearest
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Wed, Feb 25 2009, 11:29 pm
rip each page out carefully. laminate them. you can bring the laminated pages and the cover to a mail supply store to have them bound with a spiral binding. that will hold better than a glue binding. which you can't redo if the pages are laminated anyway.
it'll cost you to redo all your books, though.
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chayitty
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Wed, Feb 25 2009, 11:48 pm
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I dont think it possiable to punch holes for spiral binding in a hard cover book!
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mummiedearest
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Thu, Feb 26 2009, 4:15 pm
| chayitty wrote: | | I dont think it possiable to punch holes for spiral binding in a hard cover book! |
sure it is. worse comes to worse you use a drill. it's not hard. if that doesn't work, make a color copy of the front cover on regular paper and laminate that too. then have everything bound.
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chayitty
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Thu, Feb 26 2009, 6:19 pm
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it's obviously possiable cuz there r hardcover books out there spiral bounded...but they r commericaly made...the local copy centers r store that would do it for u..their machiene's r not ment to punch hole through hardover books and it will prob. break the machiene.
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greenfire
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Thu, Feb 26 2009, 6:35 pm
if you want to do it yourself - anything is possible if you get creative !!!
but who has time to cover each page in - how many - kiddie books ... I'm exhausted at the thought ...
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