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GianBurrasca
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In your practice, when you have dozens of photocopied or "self-printed" pages, perhaps of different pieces, which over time might
change order and composition, how do you manage?
Do you tape the spines in a way that is compatible with pauses and page turns? Do you keep everything loose or do you keep the different pieces meticulously separated in binders? Do you use binding methods (spirals, glue, spines...) when there are many pages?
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I bind books. I used to do it as a kid when, with my passion for the stars, I would photocopy huge American star charts (the old Sky Atlas 2000.0 type A2) and then use white glue (vinavil) to create a spine and subsequently a covering edge. The paper I usually use for the edge is smooth 220 Fabriano.
With my university years (eh eh, understand me), I perfected the technique.
To this day, I also produce quite decent small-format books. The only flaw is that white glue suffers a lot from the cold. Therefore, below 5 degrees, it tends to become very rigid and can break easily. Consequently, you could quite easily snap the book in half. It's not a significant problem if you live in a house with heating. However, if you leave the books in an unheated house and read them in the cold, something unpleasant might happen to the binding.
I always perform the "lamination" of the cover using white glue, spreading an extremely thin layer (it's better to use your hands instead of a brush).
The same goes for the edge.
If you want to trim the page format (for example, from an A4 format to a pocket format, like a small choral manual), you print them on A4 format anyway and then cut them in groups of 50 or 60 pages with a utility knife + ruler or with a paper cutter. Never more than 50/60 pages, otherwise the error you make will cause the book's spine to become crooked.
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Thanks Foster, I will take your experience into account... unfortunately it may be that the texts remain out in the cold... and it seems to me to understand that it would be deleterious.
But at least I know in what context I can use the glue
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The vinyl "Saratoga" is more elastic. However, I was not very satisfied with the grip.
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Well, if you say that over time the order might change... I buy matte transparent sleeves in packs of 500 and keep everything in ring binders (quite thick ones for study catalogs, the "thinner" ones I find for sheet music). Thin sleeves don't cost much and you can turn pages quickly
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My teacher used to do the same thing too
Only I make life complicated for myself
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I am also for transparent envelopes
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They are practices... Especially if after having rebound everything you realize you have swapped two pages
