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Author: tylerleecutts
Date: 2014-06-10 21:31
Have you guys ever had problems getting the bigger method books to open well and stay flat on a stand? My Klose Celebrated Method book (the huge orange one) wouldn't do this, and eventually snapped right in half on the binding. .
Do you guys just bind the books with the nicer spiral binding at a ProCopy, or what? Because it's about impossible for books like this to be very convenient in practice.
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Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2014-06-10 21:54
Give them a few decades of use and they'll stay open.
Karl
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2014-06-10 22:55
The standard paper for method books is wood-pulp, which is fairly weak and thin. It will not survive being put in a spiral or comb binding.
Back in the dark ages when books had hard covers, my father showed me the following method.
- Lay the book on its spine on a table.
- Open each cover flat on the table and press with each hand. You should hear a very slight crackling noise.
- Open approximately 20 pages from the front and back and press them down until it crackles a tiny bit.
- Continue until you reach the middle. This will put a slight, smooth bend in the glue that holds the spine.
- When the book is new, you will have to flatten each page as you turn it for the first time. After a few times through, the book will lie open by itself.
Or use paper clips or a clothes pin or a large rubber band. If you use a wire stand, raise the wires that hold the pages open. If you use a Manhasset or Hamilton stand, put books overlapping the edges to hold things open.
The big methods (Klose, Langenus, Lazarus, Baermann) are in three parts. Part 1 is for complete beginners. Get parts 2 and 3 separately.
Or buy a used copy on eBay.
Ken Shaw
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Author: pewd
Date: 2014-06-11 02:37
You can take them to office supply stores, and have the binding cut off, and get them either 3 hold punched for spiral bound.
- Paul Dods
Dallas, Texas
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Author: Ed
Date: 2014-06-11 03:04
Over the years, a number of my students have gotten the Klose spiral bound. It has worked out well.
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Author: Roxann
Date: 2014-06-11 03:13
I took my big orange Klose' to Kinko's/Fed Ex and they rebound it using spiral binding. It stays flat when I open it onto the stand, something it wouldn't do before. I LOVE it!
Post Edited (2014-06-11 03:16)
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Author: Roxann
Date: 2014-06-11 03:15
When I get a new book, I immediately follow the procedure suggested by Ken. It's my "welcome to my home" greeting to all books I buy. Nothing like the feel of paper to get me excited to delve into a new story:)
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