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Matthew Murray wrote:
[...]

>             For the record, I've been looking into this, but one of my local
> Kinkos locations charges a $10 for the first page, and $0.49 for each
> additional page.  My addition suggests that's $289.30 per book, and that's
> not counting the binding!  While I know the Designer's Manual is worth every
> penny of that, that is really a LOT more than I can spend right now.  If
> anyone comes up with a cheaper solution (I'd love to find a way to get it
> done for under $50 if at all possible), please let me know!

I vaguely recall, back in the depths of time (OK, OK, it was like five years
ago), submitting my Masters Thesis to be bound.  I gave it to the school's
courier with a check for $100, and got back four hardbound books (three of which
are now filed at the school, of course).  Granted, they're kind of "icky" (pages
glued into a cloth binding, which is then dropped into the cloth-covered hard
cover.  This means the book makes terribly disgusting cracking sounds whenever
you touch it.

However, the price certainly seems to be right, and older theses (done by the
same company, presumably) seem to not have fallen apart, yet.  So, you may want
to poke around the local universities and see if they have any bookbinders they
use.

Personally, I'm thinking of trying to find someone to make me a sewn-spine
leather-bound edition.  It'll be much more expensive, obviously, but the darn
thing'll never fall apart, and will look really nifty on the bookshelf...


