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Subject: Library or school binding?
Date Posted: 2/29/2008 9:19 PM ET
Member Since: 11/12/2007
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What is library and school binding?  I keep seeing this but am not sure what it looks like. 
Date Posted: 2/29/2008 9:25 PM ET
Member Since: 11/14/2005
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It is a paperback that has been rebound into either a hardcover or more sturdy covering.
Subject: binding
Date Posted: 3/2/2008 5:41 PM ET
Member Since: 6/2/2007
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I am a librarian and library bound usually means stitched binding rather than glued and the backs are of a sturdier material.  School binding is usually a hardbound paperback but sturdy.  Sadly, even the library bound books are not as sturdy as in the past.  The spine is sometimes not clothtape and it is not sewn. 

Frances

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