@MoonShadows 

I don’t have cost figures in my mind. They seem to leave quickly. I remember terms like extremely affordable, affordable or no way. 

This is extremely affordable. I have been going to a name brand office store but will a local Mom and Pop next time. I don’t know if they do it, but an calling to ask. When we lived in Vegas we went of Office Max or whatever. They were bought by that other office store. Back here we have been going to Staples. Staples did a much better job. 

I have been doing this for a long time with books. The Pfaff store where I bought my sewing/embroidery machines sold a techniques book for the machines. If was glue bound. Not good. She said we could pay the cost of spiral bound and she would get them spiral bound. I did that.

Spiral bound to her was was that stupid bothersome comb! You could not fold the pages over to behind the book to save table space because of the spine on the comb. AND, and this is a big AND, the comb allow the pages to slip out. Do NOT do comb bindings.

The comb binding process makes little rectangle holes in the book for the comb to go through. I took the techniques book with the comb binding to Staples and had them remove the comb and use the same holes for the spiral binding. Looks wonky, but is much better. A couple other ladies did that after they saw mine. Others said they wished the owner had done actual spiral binding. Well, they could do what I did for way less than a fat quarter of material costs. Give up a fat quarter purchase and do it. 😂

Seriously, it is not expensive, at least around here. It is such an improvement. I have another book this size, with cello exercises, that I also did it to, as well as many others.

You are welcome.

Every time I get it done, I say, “You are talking actual spiral binding, not that plastic comb.” I want to make sure we are on the same page. Most of the time, they actually show me what they are talking about.

@ABitRusty and others

What I do with PDF’s, be they music, cooking, sewing or water color related is this.

I buy the plastic sleeves with the three ring binder holes on the side and the opening at the top. I have three ring binders I put them into. I have the lessons and songs from the Online Piano Teacher (does violin too, but goes by that name) like that in a three ring binder. I have the Fiddlerman songs that I downloaded and printed in the sleeves in a three ring binder. Any downloaded and printed music is place in the binders this way. For my music, because I put it on my music stand, I get the skinner three ring binders. I insert narrow strips of paper into binder edge between its plastic cover the the binder with the identification of what is in it. 

It is great for my recipes. They are protected. I just take that sleeve out of the binder to my counter.

With my sewing, I will also, at times insert a sample of the material or the item, if small enough, into a sleeve and put it into the binder with the info. I did that with the dog scarves I designed for my younger daughter, and draw string wine bottle bags I designed for my older daughter. I put one with the instructions so I could see how I did it. I had no pattern. I created it. She sold them at a winery she used to work at. I embroidered the winery name on them. Thank goodness she works at another one now. I got tired of making them for her. 😂

Anyway, if I want to make a note on any of the PdF’s, I pull the paper out, make my note on it and slip it back into its sleeve.