[PADG:2216] Fwd: FYI: New book binding machine

["Barbara B. Eden" <beb1@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Folks,

Has anyone checked this machine out?


Barbara

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To: Barbara Berger Eden <beb1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: FYI: New book binding machine
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Barbara:

Have you heard about a new desktop-sized print-on-demand and book binding machine?  According to one account I read (at <http://www.rssgov.com/archives/000087.html>), "The system can also rebind existing books with new covers at costs ranging from 28 cents to a dollar, less than a one-quarter of the cost to libraries of sending books out. Library technical services departments will come to resemble a Kinko's."

The was also an NPR story, Book-Binding Techniques Could Revive Rare Texts <http://www.npr.org/rundowns/segment.php?wfId=1593646>.

Peter

Barbara B. Eden 
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