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Thanks to everyone who took the time to reply! My original target question: Hi. I'm looking for a reliable and affordable thermal binding machine for book repair. A librarian in a neighboring district has one and she says it paid for itself with the first few books they repaired. Hers is a Thermobind, but I'm looking for any other insight or information that you might have on any other models/types. Do any of you have one? Is it better than the old-fashioned tape method? I searched the archives, but it seems that most of those posts were about the comb-binding machines. I'm looking for one for library book repair. ************************************************************************************** Responses I received: I bought one last year called Cover Bind. Their web site is www.coverone.net It does books and also can put covers on reports. I just love it. We paid for it with the first use, as we had textbooks that were going to have to be replaced. I found one last year at our library conference for almost $900. I would be interested to see if there is a cheaper one out there. If not I would be glad to dig out the info on the one I found I purchased one from coverone.net The machine is super easy to use even my students can use it. I think it was worth the money. We had once, paid BIG bucks for it and we bought it from a company that sold UNIBIND machines. WE had it less than a year, it refused to heat up and we eventually just pitched it. The unibind company near us had gone out of business. Our public library put us onto it and YES, it did repair books. I'm thinking we paid close to $750 for it. IF you do find one, get the biggest one you can afford, so you can put fat books into it good luck High on my equipment budget requests for the upcoming year is a CoverOne thermal binding machine. I saw it demonstrated at Texas Library Assn last spring, and am convinced that it will let us rescue not only busted-back paperbacks and those non-library-binding hardbacks whose pageblocks are barely held in by the endpapers, but also keep our enormous high school textbooks usable, since they also are just held together by the endpapers. Check out http://www.coverone.net/ It's also cool that you can use the trimmed-off pieces of 'flat-glue' as I call it since it all melts anyway. We are hoping to buy one here for the high school, then the other librarians (small district) can send over their repairs, contributing to the costs of ordering more flat-glue as time goes on. Marcia Norris Media Specialist Suwannee Intermediate School 1419 Walker Ave. Live Oak, FL "What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it thinks about education." --Harold Howe, former U.S. Commissioner of Education -------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note: All LM_NET postings are protected by copyright law. You can prevent most e-mail filters from deleting LM_NET postings by adding LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU to your e-mail address book. To change your LM_NET status, e-mail to: listserv@listserv.syr.edu In the message write EITHER: 1) SIGNOFF LM_NET 2) SET LM_NET NOMAIL 3) SET LM_NET MAIL 4) SET LM_NET DIGEST * Allow for confirmation. * LM_NET Help & Information: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/ * LM_NET Archive: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/archive/ * EL-Announce with LM_NET Select: http://lm-net.info/ * LM_NET Supporters: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/ven.html * LM_NET Wiki: http://lmnet.wikispaces.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------