Man duraseal was the shit. Buying back to school gear meant buying a roll of Lisa Frank or Space Jam Duraseal and laminating your books with it. It fucking ruled. I'm surprised it's not something I see in office supply stores anymore.
I'm old.
Edit: If it's because it's bad for the environment then that makes sense and I fully support ditching it.
We used plain brown wrapping paper, the kind that's normally used for wrapping up parcels. Never even heard of this lol.
Yeah in the USA we used to use brown paper shopping bags to cover our school books. By the end of the year it's be all ripped up and shit and covered in drawings like the cool S.
Hell yeah.
I did those and the local ButterKrust bakery sponsored some plain Jane brown ones that had their name on the back at the bottom in small letters. I was super cool so I scratched out the ‘er’ so mine just said Butt Krust.
Claims to be an owl, is actually a kiwi. Really makes you think.
Now I have to slightly correct the accent I read their comments in
I think the equivalent of that in my area were these nylon book socks. We would stretch them over the textbook covers.
idk about commercial names but contact paper/film is still a thing pretty sure?
Every year it would either be part of the first class to cover your new textbooks in something, or out would be part of the homework assignment
It was also a big thing in Australia. I had a super mario sunshine one despite never having played it
we had a plasticky thing that you had to neatly fold around the inside of the cover of the book. there was also one that was self adhesive, you pulled the thing from the backing sheet and then stuck it to your book.
and yes as soon as you got your books you had to wrap them up
Not in the UK we didn't. Not sure why you'd need to? These books would be filled before they were ever destroyed and once they're filled they go in a box never to ever be seen again.
It’s for text books that are rented or you want to sell after use
