How To Protect Your Paperback Cookbooks
Ana Kinkaid
Source: Examiner.com
Summer time is a great time for yard sales and thinning out what been collected over the winter months. Some items are keepers and others, well, they have to go.
But if one of the must-keep items is a worn paperback cookbook, there is a way to give it a second life and save it from the recycle or donation box.
Kapco Book Production makes a great and inexpensive self adhesive book cover that not only protects but also strengthens paperback books. Here’s how it works:
- Use one single Poly Cover sheet for each book (they come in a wide range of sizes, all acid-free and non-yellowing).
- Place the top of the book’s spine (that’s the small strip between the front and back covers where the title is printed) on the Poly Cover sheet.
- Mark the bottom of the spine on the Poly Cover sheet and trim to match the book’s spine exact size.
- Lift the book up and remove the paper covering the adhesive surface.
- Line the spine up with the exposed adhesive surface and press firmly.
- Gently peel back the paper cover from the front and back of the Poly Cover sheet and press to cover the front and back covers of the book.
- Use a squeegee (available from Kapco Adhesive Products) to smooth out any air bubbles or wrinkles.
- Fold over the excess edges of the Poly Cover sheet firmly around the book’s cover.
It’s that easy, yes, so easy a child can do it which means, of course, adults should be able to do it with a little practice. Give it a try.
Battered paperback cookbooks will seem old friends rediscovered. And if the covers get splattered, well, just wipe it off because now you’re protected!
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