I am home producing my R.N. memoirs and wish to bind the finished booklet.

Some paperbacks at least use "padding compound" to hold the pages together.
You can buy it, or you can make your own from permanent white glue.

If you’re interested in more info on that, check out this page at my site under the category called NOTEPADS:
http://glassattic.com/polymer/MISC.htm

There are lots of ways to "bind" books (and booklets) though, from simple to complex-and-fiddly!
http://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+bind+book+easy
http://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+bind+book
http://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+bind+booklet

HTH,
Diane B.

Or any country where our the dollar is strong, and is it worth the hassle?

I am wondering why you would want 15,000 copies of anything. Do you realize 5,000 copies sale is enough to get you on a lot of best-seller lists? Selling 1,000 copies of an unknown writer is considered darn good. I am sure you can get some good prices on printing, but I hope you are not getting a lot more than can be sold.

I have several paper back activity books for the kids to do but I want to put the pages in a 3 ring binder so I can take pages out to make copies easily. Does anyone know any good clean ways to do this with out ruining any pages of the book? I heard about putting it in the microwave, but I don’t know if it would work or not. I may try the microwave technique with a book from goodwill or something but are there any more good techniques?

First make sure that the pages don’t have the perforations for tearing out — most workbooks do these days. Then carefully use a boxcutter knife and slit the pages as close to the binding as you can. Also, since you are deconstructing the book, open it as far as you can, and the glue may
split and release some pages. After a few come out the rest are easier to get.

The one that was first published and was open to the market… you know What I mean!

amazon.com is one source.

Is there any site that is giving away free books?

http://www.paperbackswap.com/index.php

or
http://www.book-club-queen.com/quality-paperback-book-club.html

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Half price books is pretty good and all over houston

http://www.halfpricebooks.com/find_a_store.html

Do paperback books still have pictures and other stuff like hardcovers do?
If the hardcover does have images inside, will the paperback?
aaah man, if the book is an autobiography and it says it has pictures on the inside, will the paperback have those pictures just like the hardcover does.

Yes. I’ve had paperbacks with the photographs inside, like what you’re talking about.

My books are dry now since they only had like sprinkles of the spray on them, but are they be safe to touch?

no

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Aren’t they the same thing? Like the same meaning?

If they’re different, could you give me some examples of softback books?

According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paperback , those are just two terms for the same thing.