Source For Making Single Bound Book

TromboneAl · 05-02-2008, 04:16 PM

As a present, I'd like to take a word document and have it bound into a book with a nice binding. This isn't a photo book, just text with some pictures included.

Anyone have a source for a place that will do that?

Thanks,

Midpack · 05-02-2008, 05:02 PM

Seemed to be several online, here's just one Bookbinding Service. Would think it would be pricey, but didn't check pricing.

CCdaCE · 05-02-2008, 05:16 PM

Kinkos? No idea if they do this sort of thing. I assume they just do the cheap plastic spiral type.

-CC

ladelfina · 05-02-2008, 08:37 PM

Not sure how "nice" it has to be.. but some copy shops (esp. larger ones serving larger markets) have a kind of one-off perfect binding (that's the kind where the pages are glued to the cover along the spine, like a paperback book). It's a definite step above the wire/plastic binding. If they don't do it in house, they may have a place to send it out. Ask to see a sample to make sure you'd be happy with the results, though.

OR you could try Japanese bookbinding!
Sewn styles

Dudester · 05-02-2008, 08:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TromboneAl

As a present, I'd like to take a word document and have it bound into a book with a nice binding. This isn't a photo book, just text with some pictures included.

Anyone have a source for a place that will do that?

Thanks,

A couple of places that MAY do what you need:

Self Publishing - Lulu.com

Make your own book with Blurb

cute fuzzy bunny · 05-02-2008, 08:39 PM

If you wanted to call your book "passion saving" I know where you can get about 24,995 copies, knock the old pages out and glue yours in...

CCdaCE · 05-02-2008, 09:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cute fuzzy bunny

If you wanted to call your book "passion saving" I know where you can get about 24,995 copies, knock the old pages out and glue yours in...

So YOU bought them all! Way to take one for the team.

-CC

cute fuzzy bunny · 05-02-2008, 09:57 PM

No, he still has all but a couple.

I didnt think that giving him my credit card number was a good move, even for a precious keepsake.

retiringby50 · 05-03-2008, 01:37 AM

I've taken an exercise book to Kinko's, had them cut off the binding, and had them use the spiral binding so that it's easier to flip through when it's on the floor. Cost me $4 but this was about 7 years ago.

Meadbh · 05-03-2008, 11:18 AM

Many years ago I used Kinko's to have multiple copies of my thesis bound and library ready, with gold engraving on the front and spine. It was relatively cheap, looked good and has stood the test of time (albeit not a frequently used volume).

Oldbabe · 05-03-2008, 05:11 PM

I was looking into this site Text and Pictures | Blurb

There are quite a few options for text plus pictures. Very high quality and reasonable price!

ladelfina · 05-04-2008, 03:57 AM

Oldbabe, that's a great link! I'm bookmarking it for future reference. Thanks!

Meadbh · 05-04-2008, 12:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ladelfina

Oldbabe, that's a great link! I'm bookmarking it for future reference. Thanks!

me too!

Urchina · 05-05-2008, 01:18 PM

TromboneAl, contact your local graduate school and ask where they recommend theses and dissertations be bound. In our town, that was a local, independent printer. Worked out great.

HFWR · 05-05-2008, 01:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cute fuzzy bunny

No, he still has all but a couple.

I didnt think that giving him my credit card number was a good move, even for a precious keepsake.

So now we're calling doorstops "precious keepsakes"?

**Want2retire** · 05-05-2008, 01:51 PM

My father wrote a family geneology and had it bound in leather with gold edges and a sewn binding at one of those "vanity publishers". I think that cost a fortune.

Back in the day I got 50 copies of my dissertation xeroxed and bound with a flexible leather-like (synthetic) cover at a xerox shop right across the street from Texas A&M. I even got to choose the color (so I chose Aggie maroon with gold lettering, of course!

) Go to the xerox place closest to your local university and they will show you examples of what they can do. The three that I have left have lasted for many years, even though not sewn. Best of all, can we say CHEAP? The cost of binding was trivial compared with the cost of Xeroxing that much on good paper.

The actual theses and dissertations on blue-line paper that Texas A&M had bound for the library and department were bound elsewhere on contract, by a place that wouldn't do individual small orders.

Moemg · 05-05-2008, 03:53 PM

Still a few copies left

The Book I Wrote

05-02-2008, 04:16 PM	#1
TromboneAl Thinks s/he gets paid by the post Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 4,166	Source For Making Single Bound Book As a present, I'd like to take a word document and have it bound into a book with a nice binding. This isn't a photo book, just text with some pictures included. Anyone have a source for a place that will do that? Thanks, __________________ - Al -- Always serious, never joking. No, wait. Never serious... Always... I forget.

05-02-2008, 05:02 PM	#2
Midpack Full time employment: Posting here. Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 914	Seemed to be several online, here's just one Bookbinding Service. Would think it would be pricey, but didn't check pricing. __________________ You only live once...

05-02-2008, 05:16 PM	#3
CCdaCE Full time employment: Posting here. Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 581	Kinkos? No idea if they do this sort of thing. I assume they just do the cheap plastic spiral type. -CC __________________ "There's those thinkin' more or less, less is more, but if less is more, how you keepin' score? It means for every point you make, your level drops. Kinda like you're startin' from the top..." "Society" - Eddie Vedder

05-02-2008, 08:39 PM	#6
cute fuzzy bunny Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ... Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Losing my whump Posts: 22,527	If you wanted to call your book "passion saving" I know where you can get about 24,995 copies, knock the old pages out and glue yours in... __________________ Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist

05-02-2008, 09:57 PM	#8
cute fuzzy bunny Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ... Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Losing my whump Posts: 22,527	No, he still has all but a couple. I didnt think that giving him my credit card number was a good move, even for a precious keepsake. __________________ Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist

05-02-2008, 08:37 PM	#4
ladelfina Thinks s/he gets paid by the post Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 2,652	Not sure how "nice" it has to be.. but some copy shops (esp. larger ones serving larger markets) have a kind of one-off perfect binding (that's the kind where the pages are glued to the cover along the spine, like a paperback book). It's a definite step above the wire/plastic binding. If they don't do it in house, they may have a place to send it out. Ask to see a sample to make sure you'd be happy with the results, though. OR you could try Japanese bookbinding! Sewn styles

05-03-2008, 01:37 AM	#9
retiringby50 Recycles dryer sheets Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 122	I've taken an exercise book to Kinko's, had them cut off the binding, and had them use the spiral binding so that it's easier to flip through when it's on the floor. Cost me $4 but this was about 7 years ago.

05-03-2008, 11:18 AM	#10
Meadbh Thinks s/he gets paid by the post Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 1,555	Many years ago I used Kinko's to have multiple copies of my thesis bound and library ready, with gold engraving on the front and spine. It was relatively cheap, looked good and has stood the test of time (albeit not a frequently used volume).

05-03-2008, 05:11 PM	#11
Oldbabe Thinks s/he gets paid by the post Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 1,130	I was looking into this site Text and Pictures \| Blurb There are quite a few options for text plus pictures. Very high quality and reasonable price!

05-04-2008, 03:57 AM	#12
ladelfina Thinks s/he gets paid by the post Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 2,652	Oldbabe, that's a great link! I'm bookmarking it for future reference. Thanks!

05-05-2008, 01:18 PM	#14
Urchina Recycles dryer sheets Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 346	TromboneAl, contact your local graduate school and ask where they recommend theses and dissertations be bound. In our town, that was a local, independent printer. Worked out great. __________________ "I was given love, education, and hope. That's my birthright." -- Barack Obama

05-05-2008, 01:51 PM	#16
Want2retire Moderator Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: New Orleans Posts: 6,084	My father wrote a family geneology and had it bound in leather with gold edges and a sewn binding at one of those "vanity publishers". I think that cost a fortune. Back in the day I got 50 copies of my dissertation xeroxed and bound with a flexible leather-like (synthetic) cover at a xerox shop right across the street from Texas A&M. I even got to choose the color (so I chose Aggie maroon with gold lettering, of course! ) Go to the xerox place closest to your local university and they will show you examples of what they can do. The three that I have left have lasted for many years, even though not sewn. Best of all, can we say CHEAP? The cost of binding was trivial compared with the cost of Xeroxing that much on good paper. The actual theses and dissertations on blue-line paper that Texas A&M had bound for the library and department were bound elsewhere on contract, by a place that wouldn't do individual small orders. __________________ Dreaming of retirement.... " - - my greatest skill has been to want but little - - " (Henry David Thoreau, in Walden)

05-05-2008, 03:53 PM	#17
Moemg Thinks s/he gets paid by the post Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Sarasota,fl. Posts: 3,093	Still a few copies left The Book I Wrote

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