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Covering books
Suggested equipment includes:
- scissors
- metal ruler
- razor trimmer
- hobby glue PVA adhesive
- bulldog clips or pegs
- large sheet of strawboard to provide working surface
- vinyl covering self adhesive contact
- rubber bands
- spine labels
- tape - pressure sensitive adhesive (Magic tape)
Covering books with dust jackets
- Remove the dust jacket from the book.
- Unfold the dust jacket to make a flat surface.
- Place the dust jacket on the plastic.
- Cut the plastic, allowing for enough to overlap after folding into the
middle and approximately 2 cm on ends.
- Use glue or tape to stick overlapped plastic together.
- Trim the plastic with a razor trimmer.
- Fit the covered dust jacket onto the book by slipping the book into the
inside of the plastic envelope (at both sides). Bend the book back gently
for easier fitting.
- Run a strip of magic (invisible tape) down the edge of the dust jacket.
Covering hardbacks without dust jackets
- Place the book on the plastic.
- Cut around the book, allowing about 4 cm
on all sides for turning over.
- Turn over the plastic on each side, and secure it to the book, using bulldog clips
or pegs.
- Cut diagonal corners.
- Cut the plastic in the middle, near the spine, by lining
up the sides of the spine and cutting in an angle.
- Tape all plastic, covering edges to each side of the book.
- Push the resulting flap of plastic into the spine with a pencil or cut it off.
- Change the bulldog clips or pegs to the top and bottom of the cover.
- Tape the plastic onto the top and the bottom of the book.
Covering paperbacks
- Measure a strip of Contact to cover the spine of the book.
- Place the Contact on the spine so that it is covered completely. Trim the Contact if necessary.
- Alternatively cover the whole book with Contact.
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