Well, obviously, you'll "destroy" the guide by removing them. However,
I've done this with several guides. Take it to a place like Kinko's. Tell
them you want to cut the binding off and then re-bind the plates in one
new spiral bound book and the text in another. Three pieces of advice:
First make sure you have them copy and cut to size the index so it can
then be bound in both new volumes. Second, have them put clear plastic
covers on both volumes. Third, have them spiral bind the new volume with
the plates. They'll likely only be able to comb bind the other one due to
its size. Comb bind simply won't work well in the field.
The one drawback to this approach is that on some of the plate pages you
will wind up with the binding going through a bird's head, but it
shouldn't totally ruin it for ID purposes.
The only problem with doing this to the Costa Rican guide, as I recall
(I'm in my office and the volumes are at home.) is that the way the index
is done really adds a lot of pages. So, you might decide if you're able to
get away without it.
Hope this helps.
Dick Payne
Colorado Springs
On Sun, 11 May 2008 14:58:18 +0000, John Spencer <
john@...>
wrote:
>Am going to Costa Rica and need to reduce bulk/weight. So I'm thinking
that I want to remove the Plates from my Costa Rica Guide What is the
best/correct way to do this with destroying the guide.?
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