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Fate · #1 September 8th, 2006, 08:52 PM

If you do do a sprial binding, please make it a BIG spiral. I just get soo annoyed when the pages get stuck on each other. I also like ring bindings, because you can flip the pages all the way around (it helps with the symmetry of the whole thing) but that is just an absurd idea,

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Agrajag · #2 September 9th, 2006, 12:47 PM

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Fate said:
If you do do a sprial binding, please make it a BIG spiral. I just get soo annoyed when the pages get stuck on each other. I also like ring bindings, because you can flip the pages all the way around (it helps with the symmetry of the whole thing) but that is just an absurd idea,

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I second that.

Nerfix · #3 September 9th, 2006, 12:49 PM

Conlusion: The manual ougt to be in spiral binding.

Tim Brooks · #4 September 10th, 2006, 08:50 AM

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If you do do a sprial binding, please make it a BIG spiral. I just get soo annoyed when the pages get stuck on each other.

Well, if we do spiral binding, it will be small. The large binding is just too bulky (not to mention expensive in and of itself) to keep shipping costs low.

So would you rather have a small spiral or book binding?

PashaDawg · #5 September 10th, 2006, 09:02 AM

If the manual will be the approximate height and width of the Dom2 manual, but twice as long, then it would be very nice to have a spiral binding.

If that is not economical, then perhaps you could make sure that the margin (on the binding side) is wide enough so that folks who really want a spiral can take the book to a kinko's or other copy shop, where they can chop off the book binding and install a spiral binding.

Pasha

Nerfix · #6 September 10th, 2006, 09:29 AM

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PashaDawg said:
If the manual will be the approximate height and width of the Dom2 manual, but twice as long, then it would be very nice to have a spiral binding.

Pasha

Agreed.

Agrajag · #7 September 10th, 2006, 02:42 PM

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Tim Brooks said:

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If you do do a sprial binding, please make it a BIG spiral. I just get soo annoyed when the pages get stuck on each other.

Well, if we do spiral binding, it will be small. The large binding is just too bulky (not to mention expensive in and of itself) to keep shipping costs low.

So would you rather have a small spiral or book binding?

If that's the case then I think a regular book binding would probably be better.
I know I have more than one notebook where almost every other page is torn because of the pages getting stuck when you turn them.

So yeah, "normal binding" and we'll treat the book nicely

(IMO, obviously

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Caduceus · #8 September 10th, 2006, 03:14 PM

I'm still in favor of spiral binding, my reason(s) given above.

Neverwinter Nights, Civilization, etc. have spiral binding and it seems to work just fine. It is going to be used as a reference, right?

Cainehill · #9 September 10th, 2006, 03:41 PM

I'm all for spiral binding myself, even if it's the tiny spiral coil. My Dom2 manual fell apart _long_ ago, and the spiral would've helped a lot.

Or, if the regular book binding is cheaper, maybe include the manual's PDF file so people could print it for themselves, and refer to it on the computer without tearing up the book itself.

PhilD · #10 September 10th, 2006, 05:00 PM

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Cainehill said:

I'm all for spiral binding myself, even if it's the tiny spiral coil. My Dom2 manual fell apart _long_ ago, and the spiral would've helped a lot.

Fully agree on this one.

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Or, if the regular book binding is cheaper, maybe include the manual's PDF file so people could print it for themselves, and refer to it on the computer without tearing up the book itself.

Err, if the game's gone gold, it's probably too late to include anything more on the CD if it's not there. Now, maybe Shrapnel can release the PDF of the manual for download...