Powis Parker's Fastback binding system offers you a great way to show off the work of your students, print your own yearbooks, protect the books your library already owns, or to create new books from downloaded material. Here are five reasons to consider owning this easy to use binding system.

1. As you well know, school kids can be a little bit rough on library books. The Parker Fastback system is great because it give you an option for repairing books that have been damaged whether they be hard or soft covered. With this system, you will be able to put a brand new wraparound cover on books that were originally bound with soft covers. Or, in the case of hardbound books, you can rebind the pages into a new cover or simply re-glue them into the existing cover. If you are of a mind to help prevent the damage from occurring in the first place, you can put a hard cover to make the bind of your trade paperbacks more durable. In short, it's easy to see how a school could greatly increase the life of its paperback, reducing the need to purchase more books. That will help the machine to essentially pay for itself over a relatively short period of time.
2. One of the great things about modern technology is that there are a lot of publishers that offer websites with supplementary material. Sometimes they even have content such as e-books and PDFs that you are able to download. With a Fastback binding system, you can take these downloads and create your own shelf-ready hardbound books out of them. This way, the books can be added to your library collection and used by several students and/or teachers over a long period of time.
3. For a lot of smaller and medium sized high schools and middle schools, the price that outside printing services charge to create yearbooks can reach some pretty eye popping figures. Sadly, the cost is becoming such a hindrance that a lot of schools aren't producing hard cover yearbooks, or any other kind for that matter, any longer. However, the Fastback system is so quick and easy that you can have students take part in the process of creating their own yearbooks. They can learn useful publishing skills and the cost of having your own in house Fastback binding system is usually defrayed within the first year that you own one. After that, you can save huge amounts of money each and every school year.
4. If you have a Fastback system on hand, you make it easy for students to create their own permanent, bound and printed books. Writing, poetry, photography, and cooking classes (to name just a few), could benefit from the ability to create year-end anthologies. These sorts of projects can be used to raise funds for school trips, senior gifts, or any number of things.
5. Last but not least, if used correctly, Fastback binding can provide students and faculty access to works that have long been out of print, but that are available online or in some other copied form. You can take these works, print them up, and create soft or hardbound books out of them that can be enjoyed for years to come.