Best way to rebind a book?

[phatj]

Just my calc book... like 700 pages... all the pages are together, but the body of pages came apart from the hard cover... so I have a hard cover of a calc book on my bed and a coverless body of pages on the floor...

can I just caulk the pages back onto the cover? or if there a more suave way of doing this?

 

[Rastus]

Tape and Book Cover.

 

[Zim Hosein]

Originally posted by: phatj
Just my calc book... like 700 pages... all the pages are together, but the body of pages came apart from the hard cover... so I have a hard cover of a calc book on my bed and a coverless body of pages on the floor...

can I just caulk the pages back onto the cover? or if there a more suave way of doing this?

I would try rubber cement before caulk phatj.

 

[myusername]

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein

Originally posted by: phatj
Just my calc book... like 700 pages... all the pages are together, but the body of pages came apart from the hard cover... so I have a hard cover of a calc book on my bed and a coverless body of pages on the floor...

can I just caulk the pages back onto the cover? or if there a more suave way of doing this?

I would try rubber cement before caulk phatj.

Hm. Rubber cement won't hold. I wouldn't use latex weatherproofing caulk, but a silicone sealant, like permatex flowable might do.

 

[AlienCraft]

Drill two holes and use zip ties!

 

[CarlKillerMiller]

Originally posted by: AlienCraft
Drill two holes and use zip ties!

This actually isn't a bad idea, IF you can find a way to secure the pages beforehand. Misaligned holes won't do you any good.

 

[Howard]

Originally posted by: CarlKillerMiller

Originally posted by: AlienCraft
Drill two holes and use zip ties!

This actually isn't a bad idea, IF you can find a way to secure the pages beforehand. Misaligned holes won't do you any good.

Vice?

 

[jagec]

caulk is always the answer. Nine out of ten girls :heart: the caulk!

 

[EyeMWing]

this is actually pretty common. Especially for math textbooks.... Other books of similar size don't do it nearly as readily.

In the future, do yourself a favor and buy softcover math books.

But now to address your problem. The problem you have to solve here is pretty interesting - whatever adhesive you use, it has to be bendable, in order for you to be able to open the book. My first instinct is to say caulk would hold, but wouldn't allow you to freely open and close the book - but if you run two beads, one along the front edge of the spine, and another along the back, leaving the middle completely open, you should have pretty close to OEM spine-bendability. I think.

Alternatively, you could do complete coverage, but in a very thin layer of the entire spine area. It would be a bit stiffer, but hold better.

 

[OrganizedChaos]

if it was mine i'd try using liquid nails, but i'm a dumbass so its probably a bad idea.

 

[AlienCraft]

Originally posted by: Howard

Originally posted by: CarlKillerMiller

Originally posted by: AlienCraft
Drill two holes and use zip ties!

This actually isn't a bad idea, IF you can find a way to secure the pages beforehand. Misaligned holes won't do you any good.

Vice?

Loose women, good weed and... oh wait, I thought you meant... uh never mind....

 

[drinkmorejava]

you should be able to get a bottle of binding glue are archivers or w/e local photo album type place you have is. I had to do it for a US history book a year ago; I think I used some sick combination of elmers glue and rubber cement. It took two days to dry but worked.

 

[thedarkwolf]

hot glue

 

[jumpr]

Originally posted by: thedarkwolf
hot glue

 

[sunase]

You could always just toss the covers and have the binding redone to make sure the pages stay together. I've taken a few softcover books to Kinko's for rebinding before. Not because they were falling apart, but because I like the spiral binding (where you can fold pages underneath) better than the normal book binding.

 

[ThePresence]

Drill 4 holes. Get some plastic string or fishing line. Tie tightly, but not so tight that you can't open the book. Melt the end of the string. Get some quality binding tape and put it over the spine.

 

[Mucho]

duck tape

 

[bonkers325]

Originally posted by: Mucho
duck tape

chicken wire