Patent ID: 6910842

Claim:
A method of binding a stack of pages to form a book comprising the steps of: placing a flyleaf inside a book cover, a spine of the flyleaf affixed to a spine of the book cover; placing an electrically resistive strip adjacent an inside of the flyleaf spine of a book cover, the strip having a hot-melt adhesive in contact therewith; positioning a stack of pages desired to be bound inside the flyleaf, a binding edge of the page stack adjacent the strip, to form a book assembly; passing an electrical current along the strip to create heat sufficient to melt the adhesive, melted adhesive serving to bind together the binding edge of the page stack and to affix a first and a last page of the page stack to the flyleaf adjacent the flyleaf spine; applying pressure to an outside of the flyleaf adjacent the strip and along the page stack binding edge, the strip positioned between the flyleaf spine and a region of pressure application; stopping the electrical current; and permitting the adhesive to solidify.