Date sent: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 15:52:39 -0800
From: "Dale Gillespie"
Subject: Re: Poor binding.
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Hello All,

This may have already been addressed (I am behind in reading my emails). But the reason (I think) that the bindings are so difficult to deal with on, say, Opera Scores is that they are glued rather than sewn. No glued binding of any apreciable thickness is going to stay open properly on a piano.
The best binding (in my opinion) would be sewn.

I had some dealings with binders years ago when a friend of mine and I were activley collecting Comic Books. We decided that the best way to keep them in good condition would be to bind them in volumes. We tried two different Binders over the years and found that the best one sewed the comics
together through the holes left by the staples. This way, no matter were you opened the bound volume of comics the book would lay open flat (and stay open) as if it were only one comic book. I know that there are no staples in Opera Scores but they are put together much the same as a comic book,
if you look at the edge of a hard bound Opera Score you can see what looks almost like a series of books one on top of the other. The problem even with them is that they are sewn thru the thickness of the whole pile rather than thru the centre.

I know that this doesn't make a lot of sense but any of you in the Graphics or Publishing fields will know what I am talking about. I am sure that there must be a better way of gluing for binding too but I don't know what it would be.

Dale Gillespie Tenor
Coquitlam, B.C.
Canada

bigtenordale-at-angelfire.com


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