Years ago I had Kinkos print and bind a book I had downloaded from a university. It cost a whopping $45, and the binding agent was just a hard plastic spiral fed through holes punched in the spine. I swore I would never pay that much for such a crappy job ever again. Since then, I've been doing my own binding. If I happen to download enough related scholarly papers, I bind them into a book. That way I have them at...