How to Protect Book Dustcovers with Mylar

Video Transcript

"Hi, I’m Molly Mackey with Expert Village and now I’m going to show you how to brodart your dust covers on your hardbacks and this helps to protect them on the shelf, keeps them free from dust and tears and other damage that might occur before they are shipped out for sale. So here’s a brodart, you want to take your dust cover from your hardback, we just want to lay it in here, bring it to the bottom edge of the white, where the white meets the cellophane and it’s already got kind of a natural fold and you just want to kind of lay that in there. Now the important part is the top edge, a lot of people tend to wrap these too tight and then that causes too much strain on the dust jacket and you can get curl and tear and various other damages so you want to just line it up right to the edge, it doesn’t have to be perfect but it’s better to overdo it than to make it too tight. Okay, then you can just crease it with your hands, hold it firmly in one spot and give it a good crease like so. Lay your hardback, you can line it up with the spine which is still visible through the book brodart, you can see it through the cellophane still, line it up, bring the flaps over, give it a nice crease again on the edge, same thing for the other side, here we go and then you have a nice protector, not too tight, perfect for the shelf. "