Getting an activity book into a binder?

[mommymonster]

Do any of you resourceful folks know an easy way to get a bound book (for example... say... the SOW Activity Book) liberated from the binding so I can put it into a three-hole punched binder? Worse case scenario, I will just maul the thing, but I was hoping for something a bit more civilized. ;)

 

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Melissa

Mom to Big A (6 -- SOW, MM, OPGTTR, biology) and Little B (2.5)

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[amey311]

i think you can have the binding cut off at some printing places, but people here have had mixed results with it (books cut at an angle, etc).

 

The new MUS books have perforated pages, so I just tore them out a couple of pages at a time. Thankfully they were also hole punched, so I didn't have to do that before putting them in a binder.

[2_girls_mommy]

I do it at Office Max. I think it costs $1.50 to have them cut the binding off. Then I pay a little more and have them 3 hole punch it for me. Totally worth it. Now I just pull out the pages I need to copy each day and do it easily at home.

[Twigs]

I do it at Office Max. I think it costs $1.50 to have them cut the binding off. Then I pay a little more and have them 3 hole punch it for me. Totally worth it. Now I just pull out the pages I need to copy each day and do it easily at home.

 

This is what I do except I've always used Kinkos - I've never had a problem there and I think the prices are very reasonable. Sometimes, when I feel especially frugal, I will have them cut off the spine but punch the holes my self.

[mommymonster]

Thank you so much! I was just dreading mauling the book. I'm heading to Kinkos this afternoon. :-)