Originally Posted by phidauex
For a home solution, you can clamp the book between two pieces of wood with the spine protruding just a hair. Then, using the wood as a guide, use a hacksaw to cut the spine off. Now, with the book still very firmly clamped between the two pieces of wood, mark out three holes using a piece of three-hole punched paper as a guide. Then drill through the wood, and through the book to make the three holes. Then unclamp, and load into a three ring binder.
Its not as pretty as the Kinko's solution, but it works, and its free. (Or a buck or two if you don't already have a binder).
peace,
sam
You know, I did that years ago with my "How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive" manual after someone decided that it should be softbound rather than the spiral version I had in college. It worked, but you'r right; not very pretty.