craftgrrl | book problem / question

hey, question for all you book alterers out there..

I've been looking through the memories, but none really address this that I could find, and if i'm wrong, point me in the right direction and I'll sit back down and be quiet. :)

I have a small paperback book whose pages are separating from each other, and in turn, from the spine. Now, it's not bound with thread, but was glued to the spine. All the book bindery type links I see talk about the stitching and such, but seeing as how the pages are all separate, sewing them isn't really an option as there is no signature to go through.. And a lot of the posts say 'Don't Glue to the Spine!'

So my question is, if I were to make a hard cover for this little book, what are some ideas to attaching this little guy in there? I'm open to the idea of cutting the spine paper off and re-gluing it if that's one way to do it.. but would like to save the front and back cover of the book if possible and incorporate it into the final project. I've seen the Daydreaming on Paper site, and was going to use her method to make the cover, I just wasn't sure how to keep the book in tact while doing this without using needles/thread for the binding process.

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Also, was going through some of the posts in the memories and where there were previously pictures, there are no longer, which kind of kills the usefulness of the post if it's a walk-through of how to do something. Does someone sort through these or what?

Thanks in advance!