What's Your Best Bet In The Bindery?

David Spiel, co-owner of Spiel Associates, which supplies a variety of bindery equipment, explains that the prime benefit of mechanical binding is the finished book's ability to stay open flat. Spiel uses products like cookbooks and maintenance manuals as examples of books where this is important.

"You don't want to prop open a book when you are under a car or stirring a stew," he points out.