<p>The pages in my math book fell out. Its a traditional textbook. The pages aren't torn or anything. They just fell out. Any ideas how to fix this?</p>
<p>If pages just come out like that, it is probably an older textbook and not your fault. I have had many of those books in high-school… In the long run more and more pages will come out; there is nothing you can do against that. </p>
<p>I guess you are asking because you have to return the book? Technically you could just attach those pages to another page with glue or tape and cut a little bit of the edges off so that the pages do not stick out and then hope that it won’t be noticed when you return it, but it would just do more harm to the book and it will be apparent on closer inspection.</p>
<p>If the book is new and you bought it through your school, try taking it to the bookstore to see if they can do anything for you (odds are probably not great unless the book was purchased quite recently).</p>
<p>If the book is new and you bought it off-campus, check the return/exchange policies for whoever sold it to you and see if you can do anything. If you bought the book last semester, don’t get your hopes up, but if you bought it three days ago in preparation for this semester, you might have some luck.</p>
<p>If the book is used or bought “new” but not from a store, then unfortunately, this is a risk you take. Trying to fix the book so that it can be sold back is probably a waste of time and effort, but there’s plenty you can do if you just want to make it usable for yourself. If just a few of the pages are falling out, then for now, tape them back in and try to be gentle with the book. If all/most of the pages are coming out, you might be better off three-hole punching them and putting them into a three-ring binder.</p>
<p>You should be able to bring the pages to a copy or office store (Kinko’s, Staples, etc.) or to the copy center on your campus and have them professionally re-bound. I’m not sure whether or not anyone would let you rebind the book with its original cover (I don’t know whether it’s even an option or whether copyright would get in the way), but it may be worth a shot, depending on cost. A simple rebinding of a textbook should run somewhere around $15 (but could easily be +/- $10 depending on size, where you go, whatever).</p>
<p>There are plenty of ways to get around this problem, but it depends a lot on why you’re asking and on how much you care. Good luck with a fix :)</p>
<p>Take it to Kinko’s or some place similar, and have them cut off the spine and put the book together with a comb binding. That will hold it together so you can use it.</p>
<p>It’s what a lot of college disability services offices do with books when they’re creating alternate format texts. A lot of bookstores will buy comb-bound books back for resale, because apparently some students prefer them. They lie flat and some people find them convenient for reading.</p>