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What separates humans from other animals? 1- We use cutlery. 2- We don't crack the spines of our books.

This is great. Basically, seal your books so oxygen doesn't get to it. Taking pride in a book collection and taking proper care of them is key. Bravo. Clear, concise tutorial.

Alternate suggestion: cover the dustjacket in contact paper. In my opinion it gives a neater look than the Demco covers. Also, when I'm attaching the contact paper, I peel off only a few inches initially, attach it one end of the book, then slowly peel off the backing paper as I press the contact paper onto the book. This helps avoid the problem of the contact paper sticking to itself or picking up stray bits of hair and dirt.

Pro tip for air bubbles: grab a fine needle and carefully pierce a tiny hole and you can flatten the bubble. I've never seen the outside of a paperback contacted like that. I lay the contact down on the table and start by laying the back cover down first by starting at the edge and rolling it down to the spine. Sometimes you can roll the spine too. I cut straight diagonally across the corners, then use the diagonal offcuts and put it on the inside corners to hold the folded over contact down better. I don't cut off the book corners because if you go close enough to the corner when cutting the diagonals off you don't get the sharp point in the contact. I even contact worn 2nd hand books. Never to late to start protecting them. Plus contact is great for us sweaty handed individuals!

I seriously need to start doing this. I have so many collectible books out of print from the 80's both hardback and paperback. I have 7 6foot bookshelves full of books in my house, one is all Stephen King.

This is an incredible video!!! Thanks so much for making this. I ordered from Demco. Can't wait to watch this again once I get my covers so I can protect all my books!

I love this. THANK YOU! As much as I love to keep my books in great condition, I also LOOOOOVE the crinkly sound of plastic on hardcover books from the library- so that’s actually what drove me to begin covering my books in plastic. Thank you again for this tutorial!

Awesome demo. I’ve done contact paper on paperbacks, but now I’ll have to try the demco stuff on my hardcovers!

I really appreciate this, I’ve been looking for a way to protect my Dads 1960s LoTR Trilogy, they’re not in the best shape but it’s never too late and they hold sentimental value

Awesome! I have a few books, I will not even read them until they are protected. Thank you.

Fantastic tutorial! Thank you so much for sharing!

Just what i needed to see. Thanks, Brian!

This is nice! I can't wait to get my books together 📚 🙊

Brian this is so awesome! I have just recently learned how to use mylar myself!!

Amazing tutorial, I was really struggling with the contact paper but your video really helped out! Thanks so much!

This is very clear and helpful. Thank you!

AWesome video! Never though of clear contact paper! Such a great idea! Great video!

Awesome video! I was looking for a way to preserve my books. Spot on advice. Thank you!

I just received a 30-pack today. Watching this video again for a quick tutorial & then I'm tackling my rares & favorites. Thanks for pointing me in this direction. I love it.

You sir are a life saver

Dude I really appreciate you and I really hope your channel blows up it's really cool to see an author just doing his thing. love your books man take care

Liked video when kitty showed up. Loved this video, thank you mate!

Love you and your channel Brian. Just purchased your first book and am really excited to read it. Wish your books were more accessible in UK bookshops take care x

You are brilliant I didn't know this was a thing thank you

Very nice collection. Helps immensely to have a marked cutting board. I hope when you "trim the corners" you are not actually getting into the cover itself at all. Never compromise the book itself in any way was how I was taught ...

Finally someone that gets me, every time I scratch a book or fold a cover it haunts me forever. Which of the two techniques would you use for books that don't have a dust cover but ain't paperbacl either, those ones that have a folding cover inside?

EXCELLENT VIDEO ! Thank you.

I gotta say, thank you. You sold me quick on the Con-Tact paper with the Dragon Prince.

If I could "love" a KZfaq video this would be one of them to click it. This is such an amazing idea! I will be getting these supplies and getting to work on my collection ASAP. Thanks so much for sharing!

Great! I'm going to do this!!

Thank you for this video!

Thanks Brian.

Great info for the paperbacks. I've already been covering my hardback books, but I go one step further and tuck the cover into the opening of the slipcover after they have been folded over. This step protects the corners of the hardcover and keeps the slipcover from sliding off.

Thanks! Great video.

man i love you and this video. you are just amazing, Thanks for the vid

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Thank you for showing us how to use the Contact Cover step by step

Sir thank you for your information, i have take knowledge of your teachers, i have very thankful to you sir god bless you

Ay, these cats and boxes! Thank you so much for your video. I have been trying to figure out how to preserve my books. I am so glad I found your video. I was curious about the longevity of contact paper and you covered it. You even went one step further than other channels by providing links on amazon. Thank you again!!

Great Video!

Brian is so nervous while doing the video. You can see his hands shaking. But he did the video very well!

Thank you so much. My book collection is growing and the safty of their condition is now worrying me. Must start doing this.

Great video ! Thank you so much

Nicely done

You can also save the corners you cut on a 45 when wrapping a paperback in contact paper and put them back into the inside corners for added strength/protection against bending. Also covers any open area left when folding in the 'flaps'.

Ahhhh, thank you for this! A lot of other tutorials had me cutting templates out of rolls of plastic, and then taping them up.... It all seemed like a major hassle.

An inspiration! I have many books from the late 1800s and early 1900s. I wonder how they would do with the plastic. Beautiful to see a man/person so passionate about his magnificent collection. Thank you. It's a great tutorial.

So I just got Mylar covers from Amazon but it’s just a giant roll of the material. Cannot imagine how long it would’ve taken me to cover all my books…. I just ordered 4 boxes of the demco omg it’s going to save me hours of labor. Can’t thank you enough. Can’t believe how quickly you can wrap a book. Can’t wait!! Great video :)

Thanks so much! I wanted to know especially because it annoys me when the cover falls off on hardcovers. This fixes that!

Great video

If you cut four 45 degree right-angled triangles for each corner of the contact on the book, you can inlay each of those four triangles back on the four corners of the inside of the book over each edge, helps reinforce the corners

i wish i knew this before reading my mistborn tenth annuversary editions, it looks so scuffed up great video man

he knows what he is talking i trust him

Use an exacto knife or similar tools for the edges. No need to snip with scissors and it has a sharper look.

I lost it with that cat 🤣🤣🤣

Sooooo happy to hear I'm not the only person that freaks out on a cracked book spine. It drives me literally crazy when some of your friends look at one of your books and proceeds to open the book up totally flat. Its like, what a second! Let me have that back for a minute to teach you the rules of opening a book. Lol

Mr. Durfee you crack me up xD

I no likely pristine books, I like them old and a little worn 💖

Thank you for your video ..I was wondering how your books was so shiny..

You make this look so easy. I just my first three books and the result is.... Air bubbles galore

I have a couple of first edition Stephen King books. I need to do this

I have enough experience with contact paper to never let any near my paperbacks despite how good it is when done right.

Great tip! I did this with normal wrapping paper for my schoolbooks back in the day. But I wouldn't dare to use stick on plastic on my beloved books 😱 but the bookcovers look cool. I will wait for the link since I never seen them and hope the are available in my country (the Netherlands)

You can also tape the cover to the book so it won't fall off. Make sure only see the tape on the inside flap, not on the front cover or back cover.

They don't sell those book jacket covers in the UK, unless I'm not looking in the right places. I have a few books that came with exactly that kind of protective covering and they all came from the States. So I've had to order film that comes on a roll from Ebay. It might not be ideal, but it's the best thing I can find.

Thank you, this is super help full and exactly what I was searching for! I'm wondering if anyone from Europe knows where they might find these type of plastics or what their names are because I can't seem to find them. Thank you!

I love to know that I'm not the only the gots nuts about. Now can we use the contact paper for the sleeves for the hard cover books

Does demco protect from UV rays? What about Demco vs bordart? Where do you get your contact paper?

I have a hardcover book from 1920 that looks brand new. The complete boards of the hardcover, spine included, have been coated with can only be described as a clear shellac, thus giving the book a sheen finish and hard coat that prevented complete wear and tear from happening. The book looks like it just came from the publisher, except for the sheen look. Have you ever heard of this being done before for book preservation about 100 years ago?

Thanks so much for the video! I use transparent plastic book covers for my novels and they make my books look exactly like your plastic book jackets. But after a few years of use, they start to look old and lose their shine, and due to this I have to change the covers. So my question was, with your plastic book jackets, does the look and shine remain intact even after some years of use?

What about keeping them from yellowing do you have a video on that? And, thank you for this it was very informative.

Thank you for this!! Is there any reason why you wouldn't want to tape/stick the plastic cover to the dust jacket?

i need this

I use contact paper on my reference paperback books. Even for some of my hardbacks. Thanks for the slip cover vendor recommendation. I couldn't figure out where to get them. The bulk of my books though, I prefer leaving them as is. Because ... plastic is mostly not very aesthetic. I put temporary paper book covers on the books I am currently reading in order to keep the oil stains from my hands at a minimum. And yeah, I'm one of those people who, if I damage a book, I buy a new one. Sad. ;)

Thanks so much for this video. Do you have any advice for covering paperbacks that have those embossed/raised text on the titles? Every time I try with contact paper there's always air pockets around the letters and i hate how it looks 🥲

This video helped me out alot as I HATE having cracked spines. But I also want to apologize. I've given you alot of shit on this channel for promoting your books. Who the hell am I to tell YOU what you can or can't do on your channel. I do enjoy your channel genuinely. Seeing all these classic fantasy paperbacks and hearing these stories is very cool. I apologize and hope you see this comment

Can you use contact paper on the dust jacket of a hardback?

Brian, what advice/idea do you have for old cloth covered books? I have a large collection of books from the late 1800s and early 1900s with no dust covers. I would LIVE to protect them somehow.

Thoughts on using con-tact paper on the hardcover dust cover instead of the book jackets? Is it simply more cost effective to by the clear book jackets or is there another reason?

Thanks for this :) I'm just ordering a set of jacket covers and have a question: the book jackets I want to cover are a couple of millimeters under 9 inches in height and the jacket covers are exactly 9 by 19 inches. Should I go for the 10 inch width? I ask because I'm worried the jacket might have a tight fit in the cover and start to bend.

iv got the forgeting mooning one of Brians books he wrote its on mt book collection one im going to read as soon as I can I have almost 300 books I read them in turn and I put the new ones I recently got to the back and as I keep them for longer and longer I read them in turn one after the othere I mix my genre up Im like a reading mechine like one after the othere because that is like my fav thing it helps me unwind keeps me sane in this life long story, I read them from the one iv kept the longest to the newst in turn and I add them to my good reads and I have good reads on my mobile phone eka cell phone or whatever the rest of europe calls it, I read like my own personal conver belt, That dosen`t matter, I did say I was going to read Brian lee durfees 5 worrior angles books sometime, I have the three books and the forgeting moon book feels the most oddest feeling it lovely its like some velvety feeling its lovely, I wounder how you did that be able to make a book cover feel like velvet, oh by the way my three 5 worrior angek books are paperbacks and there size of hardbacks no honwstly.

waiting for the links amigo. BTW, very informative video. Thank you.

2:03 Hello there, fellow book lover!!!

So if all my books are the same length top to bottom, this is great. If they arent, do I have to order a pack of 50 bookcovers for each length?

Will this work on autograph books

" we don't break our spines folks we're not animals" Ahem yes of course. I certainly didn't decide that Harry Dresden was my favorite character when he started making fun of people who preserve the spine. That wasn't the funniest thing ever to me. Nope. Hey seriously though this is great stuff thank you.

I have an Amazing Spiderman Vol. 1 Omni bus! It really needs to be protected at all costs!

What would you recommend for hard cover books with no jacket? For example, Joe Abercrombie's first law trilogy that's available now. Would it just be contact paper as well? Or am I out of luck?

Also - any way to preserve/prevent pages from yellowing?

Does the contact paper work on the paperback Harry Potter books too? They’ve got raised text on the covers.

does sticky plastic devalue the cover....eg if i had an original copy of the great gatsby with original dust cover, worn at the edges...if i put a stick on plastic cover on it...would the price go down.

Anyone have any suggestions for hardcover books that don't come with dust jackets? Example: the Myst books

Do you get the same size covers for all of your books? Not sure which size to order for books that range from 8.5-9.5

The slip cover what size is it?.

This was exactly what I was looking for! What size did you use for the wheel of time? 😊

question? how can I get my new book sealed in plastic prior to sales?

I can tell you're a 49ers fan.... I'm sure you've heard that one this week.

thanks! what happens if my book is much taller? does those sheets have different height?

What is the average size of slipcovers one would buy for the average hardcover?