Is this connected to the wrong post? In any case, it’s true enough that binding quality doesn’t seem to be an issue on any of the PoD books I’ve done. (There was one exception on one copy of my wife’s BIG book–454 pages, 8.5×11, 60lb. stock, which really is a BIG book, but only one, and that was a paperback. Replaced for free, to be sure.)

I hadn’t thought about it, but sewn bindings might not work very well for PoD, since there are no signatures (with one exception: 5.5×8.5 “digest-size” books have, I suppose, four-page “signatures”). Hmm. I better stop there, before I reveal my vast ignorance of actual binding techniques and issues…

I am enjoying all your commentary on binding quality…yes the qualities of paper books are still important!

I believe your Lulu hard cover has a much improved “perfect” binding using polyurathane adhesive. That can be confirmed with Brian Beard at Bridgeport National Bindery. This is a rather miraculous improvement in POD bookbinding and it enables excellent binding of the “wrong grain” POD productions as well as the coated photo book stocks.

Gary