Book/Booklet Binders — Fast and Easy, Rules

BY ERIK CAGLE

The evolution of book publishing has some parallels with that of the computer. Smaller and quicker are the operative words in this comparison.

Before the PC became a household fixture, computers were hulking boxes with reel-to-reel tapes and other round objects that made those cute little concentric circles. And they weren't the sharpest knives in the drawer, boasting the processing speed of a can opener. Book publishing was also big and scarry—1,000-page megatomes were loaded onto presses to churn out millions of copies. "War and Peace" was followed by hundreds of thousands of 500-page copies of biology books. Obviously, they took awhile to print.