Patent ID: 6837521

Claim:
A method of binding a book comprising the steps: providing a front cover page having at least four binding holes extending therethrough, a rear cover page having at least four binding holes extending therethrough, at least one center page having at least four binding holes extending therethrough and positioned between said front cover page and said rear cover page and a binder cord; aligning each of said at least four binding holes of said front cover page, said rear cover page and said at least one center page such that each of said at least four binding holes are generally vertically aligned with vertically adjacent binding holes in adjacent pages; passing a looped section of said binder cord upwards through at least a selected two of said at least four binding holes in said rear cover page through the vertically adjacent one of said at least four binding holes in said at least one middle page and through the vertically adjacent one of said at least four binding holes in said front cover page; passing said binder cord through each of said looped sections of said binder cord above said front cover page; and securing said binder cord to itself to secure said binder cord within said at least one binding holes thereby securing said front cover page, said rear cover page and said at least one center pages in a bound book format.