{"id":327,"date":"2010-02-18T07:52:24","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T04:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/?p=327"},"modified":"2010-02-17T16:01:45","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T13:01:45","slug":"my-thoughts-on-spiral-binding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/2010\/02\/18\/my-thoughts-on-spiral-binding\/","title":{"rendered":"my thoughts on spiral binding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a consumer, book designer, author, and publisher, I have some definite thoughts on spiral bound books. For many, they are the holy grail of needlework books. Me? I hate them!<\/p>\n<p>First let me state that by spiral bound, I mean wiro, spiral or coil binding.<\/p>\n<p>So why do I hate spiral binding?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Spiral bound binding is unstable. When you stand a book on its spine, the most pressure is on the binding at the top of the spine, as the pages are naturally pushed down by gravity. It means that they want to hang down. With a sewn or glued binding, because they are stronger bindings, this have very little effect, but with spiral binding, it really puts strain on the gutter edges of the pages.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Spiral binding requires holes to be punched (or ground) near the gutter edge of the pages. Sometimes this causes the pages to stick together around those holes, meaning that when the reader wants to turn the pages, sometimes the page rips at the binding.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Spiral bound pages can be difficult to turn neatly as sometimes the pages gets bunched inside the binding, meaning they won&#8217;t last so well.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Because of these aspects which make spiral binding less long-lasting, it also means that the books can become more easily beaten up during display in shops. As a publisher and author, I want my books to look their best at all times, so I want a strong stable binding that keeps the book together well and neatly.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>When books only have spiral binding (and no cover around the outside, unlike the binding &#8211; known as half-Canadian &#8211; that Country Bumpkin&#8217;s A-Z books have) there is nowhere to display the details of the book on the spine. If a book is displayed in a shop or library on a bookshelf with only its spine showing, customers are less likely to pick the book up, because they won&#8217;t know at a glance, what the book is. Most people browse reasonably quickly along shelves. If they miss my book in those few seconds, I&#8217;ve missed a potential sale. I want to make my books as saleable as possible both for myself and the shops selling them. Some shops refuse to stock spiral bound books because they are difficult to sell. Books without any spine labelling will also be harder to locate on your personal library shelves.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>For long runs, it is a relatively expensive type of binding (though affordable for small or very small runs). As my books are printed in the thousands (long runs), that would increase the cover price of the book.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These are my main gripes, but my main point is that spiral bound books just don&#8217;t last as well. I want my books to last as long as possible, both for me personally, as a consumer, and for my customers who buy my books.<\/p>\n<p>I understand why people like spiral binding &#8211; it can lay completely flat &#8211; but for me, this consideration is outweighed by wanting my books to LAST.<\/p>\n<p>For the record, my books are stitched and glued (not perfect bound), which means that they are strong and stable. They will also open flatter than a perfect bound book.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure there will be people out there who disagree with me, so go ahead and tell me why! I&#8217;d really like to hear your opinion!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a consumer, book designer, author, and publisher, I have some definite thoughts on spiral bound books. For many, they are the holy grail of needlework books. Me? I hate them!<\/p>\n<p>First let me state that by spiral bound, I mean wiro, spiral or coil binding.<\/p>\n<p>So why do I hate spiral binding?<\/p>\n<p> Spiral bound [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-designing","category-writing-books","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":344,"href":"https:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions\/344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}