tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8986064398263094745.post-71242079728705324332008-05-12T05:41:00.000-10:002008-05-12T05:41:00.000-10:002008-05-12T05:41:00.000-10:00I work as a cookbook editor, and while the content of my company's books differ from these, the way in which both kinds of books are physically made are very similar. For example, the book pictured on your site appears to have at least one hard cardboard cover, much as the 3-ring binder-style books my company publishes.<BR/>This kind of cover is typically assembled out of three separate pieces: a piece of raw unprinted cardboard stock, a wrapper (usually scrap paper of some sort), and a printed glossy cover.<BR/>The cardboard is too rough to bond with the kind of glue you need to use with the sort of super-calendared (meaning extra glossy, extra strong and extra smooth) paper the glossy cover is printed on without ruining the cover. So the standard work-around solution is to first glue a piece of scrap to the cardboard, then glue the actual cover to the scrap.<BR/>As you might imagine, at most printing plants the most readily available scrap paper has already been printed on. It may be part of the overrun from another project, or it might have misprints or be otherwised flawed. This is especially true of covers -- I can't tell you the number of times our production managers (who are always on-site when our job is being printed) call to complain that the plant began printing our coves on the wrong stock, or the printers started printing with the wrong inkes, or the press managers are taking too long to adjust the cover to our specifications, etc., all of which result in (mis)printed materials that won't be bound into books unless they are used as scrap as I've suggested above.<BR/><BR/>The long and short of it is that there is absolutely no reason to believe that ANY Bible-story books were somehow "recycled" and used to create your Elmo book.<BR/><BR/>Out of curiosity, though, what bothers you about finding the Bible-related material "hidden" under the cover/sound-device of the Elmo book? Are ou upset because you believe a Bible-story book was destroyed to make the Elmo book? Or so you take offense at the Bible-material layered under the otherwise secular content?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com