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Hi, I’m Molly Mackey with Expert Village and now I’m going to show you how to brodart
your dust covers on your hardbacks and this helps to protect them on the shelf, keeps
them free from dust and tears and other damage that might occur before they are shipped out
for sale. So here’s a brodart, you want to take your dust cover from your hardback,
we just want to lay it in here, bring it to the bottom edge of the white, where the white
meets the cellophane and it’s already got kind of a natural fold and you just want to
kind of lay that in there. Now the important part is the top edge, a lot of people tend
to wrap these too tight and then that causes too much strain on the dust jacket and you
can get curl and tear and various other damages so you want to just line it up right to the
edge, it doesn’t have to be perfect but it’s better to overdo it than to make it
too tight. Okay, then you can just crease it with your hands, hold it firmly in one
spot and give it a good crease like so. Lay your hardback, you can line it up with the
spine which is still visible through the book brodart, you can see it through the cellophane
still, line it up, bring the flaps over, give it a nice crease again on the edge, same thing
for the other side, here we go and then you have a nice protector, not too tight, perfect
for the shelf.