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Hi! I'm Gary for Expert Village. Now let's starting putting tape across the book. I chose
my thin tape. The first place I am going to put the tape is across the top here. This
gives this part support where it usually starts to rip and we just put a strip across just
like we did over here. You can see there is a strip going across here and it also has
a nice clean look when we put the tape down the sides. It gives a nice clean look when
we put on top as well. So let's go ahead and do that. We take our tape and for that we
will need about 2 1/2 inches. So what we need to do is take a little bit of tape. Don't
put it exactly on the end but we need to leave it over a little bit, probably about half
the width of the tape and that is going to be tucked in into the bottom and give it more
where you won't be able to see it. We are going to tuck it into the spine and that will
prevent the tape if we put it right to the top. Sometimes the tape starts to come off
and get sticky. This way it is going to be nice and clean. It is going to over the top
and we are going to tuck it inside so you won't even see the edges. Now what we are
going to do in order to make it easier to tuck inside at the edge where the continuation
of the book, we are going to make a little snip and the tape will have its grooves over
here and also on the other side.
Now the tape is actually into 3 different strips and that will make it easier to open
up and we can fold it down. One will go down into this side and the other one will go down
the back cover. There's a space here between the hard cover on the back and you see this
yellow ribbon which is what is holding the pages together. You don't have to be afraid
to just pull it out a little bit so you see a space. I take my knife and I use the very
sharp part of it because it will just poke holes but I use that to kind of separate it
and tuck it down in between that part of the hard cover and where the pages are. I just
very light, very gently so it doesn't rip the tape. I just kind of stuff it in there.