Binditek Thermal Binding Machine, 500-Sheet Capacity, 110V Heating, for A4/A5/Letter Documents, Universal Thermal Binding Machine, No Assembly Required

After a basement flood that forced us to go through a LOT of storage items, my adult children and I found all sorts of poems, short stories, drawings, etc. that they had written/made when they were young children. Everything we've found so far is in old, worn binders or just haphazardly thrown in boxes/crates. I got this so that I could bind each child's works into a keepsake for them.Have I done that yet? Heck no.But I have used this binding machine for a church project/Christmas gift for the youth I serve in our congregation. After making 30 books, I have adults who now want a copy of what I wrote and bound "If you do another run." I told them I did it all myself, no publishing "run" and they were shocked. Maybe someday I'll have enough pages of something to try binding in hardback, which I haven't done yet. But for the soft cover projects? This has been exactly what I needed.

So far so good. It works pretty slick.

If I’m basing my rating on the product description which is 100% accurate, this should get a five star rating. It’s metal, not cheap plastic, it includes 10 covers to get you started. I needed more than 10 covers. I invested in Cloth Bookbinding tape and Thermal Glue Strip. I had a 30 page document. Using the thermal binding machine is okay but not impressive. The document I produced was described as frail, easy for the pages to be unglued. I would have returned the machine except I used some of the covers. I’m giving this a one star rating. This machine did not match my needs. I spent time searching Amazon, lots of other options than this binding machine. At the end I used an awl, dental floss and the cloth bookbinding tape.

Will never make good books the glue won’t work. The papers fall out

Heavy construction. All metal. Instructions not all that great as terms change.

This produces excellent binding quality and the encourage the vendor to offer supplies suitable for thick book binding