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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. 

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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

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