   Bring back spiral bound books
  I was just looking at my book shelf and a few of my older tomes caught my eye, specifically the ones like this:Like a lot of books from the time that had pages and pages of source code (and very few had source code on disk, I can count on one hand how many floppys I have that came with books) and to make it convient to type in those programs the books where spiral bound so they would lay flat.Anyone else think sprial bound programming books should make a comeback?   
  Just looked at my shelf. The only spiral bound book is "Introduction to Cobol." [grin]I like them, as long as they are really high quality.  Nothing worse than a spiral bounds whose pages either tear at the bound or come out by themselves.   ;  I hate putting books on my desk and then having the pages flip to the wrong place when I take my hands away, so yeah, I want spiral bound books. But I hate it when the spiral gets deformed.   ;  The only spiral bound media that I have are music sheets.  I guess I can "program" the music into my digital piano.I like spiral bound books as well since the bindings on books tend to show creases as time goes on.  The only bad thing is whenever they are shelved, I would have to pull them out to look at their titles unless they have a piece of plastic that runs down the side with information.   ;  seeing as most programing books thesedays provide digital copies of all the source and things like that, I don't think it is a good idea. Sprial binding is a pain, and is almost more expensive. Easy to rip, hard to shelve.   ;  I like the idea of spiral binding because I hate it when my book's page changes when I take my hand off it, but they are too hard to maintain. I have one spiral bound book and the corners and edges are all dinged up.   ;  Anything over 500 pages, and you would probably just be better off hard cover. Plus, if you use a book shelf, it can make it hard to find the material you are looking for. No binding, no spine. Also, the bindings can get tangled if you have more than one.On the other hand, spiral bound would be awsome for a straight up API refrence, you know, something that would never leave the desk.   ;  Your local Kinko's will take a regular PerfectBinding-bound book, saw off the spine, and turn it into a spiral-bound book for you. Well, maybe they won't saw off the spine for you, but if you saw off the spine yourself and bring it in they'll be able to bind it.[Edited by - Sneftel on May 30, 2006 1:45:22 AM];  What I've always wondered is... why a spiral? Why not several hard rings through it (independent of other rings)?   ;  If the rings were independent from each other then the space between them wouldn't be fixed and the binding would be less stable.shmoove   