Book binding is done for many different reasons. It will depend on the type of book and the use the book will have determine which binding is best. I have mentioned a few of the different types of binding below.
Hardcover books that need to be very strong can be bound by calf-binding. This is where the cover is half or full leather. These books are called leather bound. They will last a long time. Oversewing is another strong way to bind a book. The fold is sewn in and then glued. Up to a five inch book can be bound this way. The trouble is the pages will not lay flat. In the punch and bind, it is a wire binding. Each individual sheet is punched with a line of holes and a wire is inserted in the book then clamped with a vice like clamp. The spine of the book is hidden by the last page.
Comb binding is nice if you need to take a book apart and put it together again. It uses 19 holes on a piece of 11 inch paper. This give you flexibility if you need to add or take away pages. Looking at spiral binding it is a good binding for atlas type books. Holes are placed down the edge of the pages. A spring like wire is inserted into the holes. The book can then be opened on itself without damaging the binding. Regardless of how any book or set of books is bound, when they are bulk ordered they are extremely heavy and must be loaded into trasnport trucks by a forklift. If and when you are going to need to do this type of work, go out and look for signs that read forklifts for sale.
Paperback books are done by perfect binding. The pages are glued together at the spine with flexible glue. The cover is usually a little heavier than the pages, like National Geographic. The books usually fall apart after a lot of handling. When you look at a cardboard article it looks like a hardbound book. All they did was use hardcovers on a paperback book. They took thermal adhesives and used a perfect bind machine to put it together. There are a lot of choices in book binding. The first choice is to decide what the books use will be so one can determine what kind of binding you will need. I have only listed a few choices. Depending on where your loading of books takes place, you may want to also find forklift attachments for sale.
