<p>I remember hearing about a place that can remove the binding of course readers/books at UCLA. Does this place also remove the bindings of regular paperback textbooks?</p>
<p>Can anyone please let me know where it is located, how much it costs, and other additional details. Thanks.</p>
<p>Kinko's?</p>
<p>10char</p>
<p>i know not of details.</p>
<p>Send a private message to Jinobi. He has discussed this in a previous thread many times (though not as much as flong's Microsoft internship :rolleyes:)</p>
<p>I think it was $1.50 at STC.</p>
<p>How come we can't remove it ourselves with a pair of scissors or something? I've haven't seen a course reader so I don't really know what the binding looks like.</p>
<p>Gee, thanks Boelter for comparing me to flong, LOL. </p>
<p>Alright, so the course reader binding is just a paper binding with glue to attach the pages. Really simple to hack off, if you could. </p>
<p>But it's easier to do it at Kinko's. Problem is, I've heard ASUCLA is going to replace the Kinko's in Ackerman Union with an arcade. So, you'll have to walk to Westwood to get it cut (not a problem, since I figure you're gonna have to walk to Westwood anyways to buy the course reader)</p>
<p>Can they also remove the binding of a regular paperback textbook and not a course reader?</p>
<p>Anything. All they do is cut the binding off, so it doesn't matter what binding you have.</p>
<p>It can be glued back on afterwards though, right?</p>
<p>Uhh no. It's destructive. The course readers with the glue binding... well I suppose that's possible except you might get some of the text cut off due to the now smaller margin. And of course, it won't be as good as original, especially not a textbook. It'll likely start to fall apart pretty soon.</p>
<p>The type of binding that can be easily removed and replaced are the ones binded with the comb.</p>
<p>And if you want it to be rebound, only way you can do it is by binding it with a comb, like ucapplicant05 said. Kinko's will do that for you too. </p>
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