Reinforced book bound with imaging material

A book, comprising:

• a stack of booklets, each having a first face, a second face, and a spine connecting a binding edge of the first face to a binding edge of the second face, one binding edge and one face of each booklet being aligned respectively with one binding edge and one face of an adjacent booklet;
• a cover extending at least partially over a first exposed face of one booklet in the stack, wrapping around the spines of the stack of booklets, and extending at least partially over a second exposed face of another booklet in the stack;
• and
• activated imaging material binding the cover to the spines of each booklet in the stack.

A method of binding a book assembled from a stack of media sheets and a cover, the method comprising:

• applying imaging material to a binding region of each sheet, the binding region located adjacent to a binding edge of that sheet;
• assembling the sheets into at least one stack for binding, aligning the binding edges and binging regions of adjacent sheets in that stack;
• applying imaging material to a binding region on the cover;
• assembling the cover with the stack of media sheets;
• and
• activating the imaging material in the binding regions of each sheet and the cover binding together the sheets in the stack and binding the cover to the stack.