One of my favourite ways to finish a book is to spiral bind it.
Surely not. Am I mad? Ugly spiral binding on your newly printed masterpiece.
Actually yes. But the good news is that it won't look in the slightest bit ugly!
Of course it might do if you just spiral bound your book and left it there, but that is not actually what I'm proposing.
Instead there is a method of book finishing known as Canadian Spiral Bound Book Finishing and this is an elegant, even clever, solution to an age of problem that books suffer from. And what might be that problem?
Simple. When you place your book flat on a table and open it to a page, it will quickly close itself up again ensuring that you will definitely lose your place.
This is an annoying feature of books which are bound using glue down the spine. And this is how the vast majority of books are held together. The problem will be a little bit less acute when you read a hardback book, but even then you will notice that the book seems to have an urge to close. And with the paperback, well, you can forget it.
Most people think that if you use spiral binding to finish a book that you might end up with something which looks more like a report. If your book contains, say, a couple hundred pages then you would obviously require some quite large spiral binding which would end up making your book looked rather ugly. Perhaps more akin to an instruction manual than a novel or biography!
But it doesn't have to be that way and Canadian Spiral Book Binding is the answer.
The way this works is actually quite ingenious. Your book will be printed in the normal way. The pages will be cut up and arranged in order from one through to whatever. But then, rather than gluing the pages together, they can be spiral bound instead.
However the magic takes place in the way that the book cover operates. Rather than revealing the Canadian style spiral binding, the cover can instead mask the spiral rings in order to present the look and feel of a more traditionally finished book. At least when viewed from the outside cover.
When the book is opened the reader gets a pleasant surprise when he discovers that it can be placed entirely flat down on the table meaning that you will never lose your place again.
Canadian spiral bookbinding a little-known secret of specialist book printers, but it can provide a wonderful treat for your reader by stopping them from having to fight with the books when reading your words.
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