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Has anyone heard from Lula Chang? Her website hasn't been updated in awhile and I miss her thought provoking posts.

They, the borrowers and blackholes, are back!!! This time, they have absconded with or swallowed a little bag of beads.

Pages in my paperback copy of Erica Wilson's Embroidery Book which I go to for advice and inspiration are falling out I'm sure that even if I could find a professional a binder, the cost would be astronomical. Do you know of any procedures that'll save the book so I don't have to get another copy at the used book store?

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anne
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It's painstakingly slow but I once punched holes in each page and then put them into a loose-leaf binder.

Then we used the little circular thingies that were readily available then to reinforce each hole, and applied them. Another mindless, boring not fun thing to do.

Do they still sell the reinforcements?

Lucille

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lucille

If you have a Kinko's near you I believe they can make it into a spiral bound book for you. I don't know how much it costs.

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Jeri

You can get looseleaf plastic sheet protectors in a box of 100 for about $10-$15, then put the sheets in a binder. If the pages of your book are about 8 1/2 x 11 it would work. Dora

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bungadora

Yup, now you get them on a roll, self-adhesive, peel off the backing. Office supply, sometimes scrapbook supplies. I'm sure that I actually have some in the house. I remember those from elementary school - having to fix some looseleaf page that had torn.

Although, now, if I'm really interested in saving something, I just pull magazine pages and put them in page protector sleeves, and those go in a binder. I do that a lot with large multi-page charts, especially the canvas work pieces.

Ellice

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ellice

It's not at all hard to bind a book, especially if you're one of those measure-twice-cut-once sorts of people. I wouldn't try to type out the instructions here, as they're pretty detailed and need illustrations, but I learned how from the Reader's Digest Repair Manual. If you can get hold of an old copy of that, you won't be sorry! There's buckets of good advice in there!

Anyway, to bind the book, you need two pieces of cardboard of a weight to make a stout cover (I think matt board is too heavy for small books - I use the stiffest card I can buy from the newsagency: somewhere between poster board and cardstock). Then, you need some fabric for the binding. Homespun works well. On my first attempt, I used a heavy cotton drill, thinking it would lend strength! LOL! No, it just makes for a clunky-funky cover. Next, you need white glue (Selley's Aquadhere for Oztralians), some 'animal' glue (ie one based on animal protein - you can get it from shoe repair places) and a bit of stiff paper, like cartridge paper, for the spine. Oh, and a bit of loosely woven stuff for attaching the covers to the spine. A bit of gauze bandage would do the trick, but I found cheap sew-in interfacing worked fine.

The technique is simply a matter of measuring, cutting and gluing. It's quite miraculous how easy it is to secure all the pages back into a precious book and fit it for a long lifetime with you! (NB. It's the contact with the 'animal' glue that holds the pages together: you cramp the freshly-bound book or weigh it down with bricks and the glue impregnates the spine and the page edges, holding them forever together).

Give it a go if you can - you won't be sorry! ;-D

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Trish Brown

I have been intending for some time now to buy a (used) hardback copy. There are more and better illustrations in the hardcover, but by the time I found out about this book it was OOP, so I had to make do with the paperback. The only thing stopping me is that I am also seeking a copy of Barbara Kafka's Healthy Microwave Cooking, which, in a fit of misplaced economy, I failed to buy when it was new, thinking that I could simply adapt from her Microwave Gourmet. I am trying to find a source which has both, so I can get them with one order.

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.

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Olwyn Mary

Even though I'm definitely one of those people, I rarely end up with what the directions say I needed. Turns out that in addition to be unable to count and follow patterns, I'm unable draw, cut or sew lines that are vertically or horizontally straight. It could be an eye condition like astigmatism but is more likely that some of my neural network pathways are weird.

Thanks for trying to help.

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anne

My page protectors are home to scans of charts I've morphed, gently used iron on transfer patterns, templates for guardian grammie pillows and komfort cuties as well as pages that I don't want to staple together, etc. etc. Most of them are stored either in subject related notebooks or in my file cabinet.

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anne

There's one not far from me. I'll check it out.

p.s. Thanks all for the suggestions

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anne

Alibris has the Wilson book but I didn't drill down to see if they've got the Kafka one. I"ve never ordered anything from them; they seem to be a combination of their warehouse and a network of resellers. Here's a link:

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I am trying to find a source which has both, so I can get them with one order. The cost of shipping and handling is a *itch. I thought I'd take advantage of a 'wonderful' deal from Omaha Steaks but when I found that the s/h would be almost $20 on each order, I never followed through.

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anne

Have you looked at Ruth Kerns' Bookshop? She is the one who doest the shops at the national seminars for ANG & EGA, and has a website. Anyhow - my eventual point is - Ruth carries used copies of OOP books, as well as whatever she may have found. Tons and tons of needlework books. Might be worth looking.

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ellice

This seems a not-too-inappropriate place to insert a neat craft I saw at a recent craft fair: purses made from hardcover books. Talk about recycling!

These were beautifully wrought, with great care in matching fabrics and themes.

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sue

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Susan Hartman

I have had several books from Alibris - all were exactly as stated (re condition) and arrived promptly, no hassle. They are the first place I look, before amazon or chapters.

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lucretia borgia

I don't remember where you are, Anne, but you could maybe check either the public library or the local university library. Our library does do book repair, although I'm not sure if they do it for the public. It would be worth asking, though.

Joan

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Joan E.

That's a great suggestion. I'll ask a friend who is a librarian about it. I took my injured book to Kinko's and was told it would cost about $5 to punch holes and attach a spiral binding. It should be ready tomorrow, if they haven't misplaced it -- I should've gotten a receipt as proof that I left 'em a job. Oh, well ...

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anne

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