Blurb books - are 'perfect bound'. Bear this in Mind

This is the book I had printed by Blurb - you may have seen the photos in the earlier post  where I cut the book in half using a Stanley knife.  It’s the kind of knife you use for cutting a sheet of mount board, when you are  making picture mounts.

I bought the book, a black and white 'travel book", just to be able to 'alter' it e.g. tear it up cut it up etc etc.

As I was carefully taking the book apart I thought I saw little indentations that might suggest that in fact there was stitching involved........................... HOWEVER as I delved further I could see that indeed it was just 'bound' with glue.

Yes the book binding (as such) is what I feared it might be,  they call it ‘perfect bound’ - which essentially means its single pages are  glued-together, at the spine.  

This is the cover  - a soft cover.  The glue only takes up less than about a 16th of an inch 

1/4 of a cm  so hardly worth bothering with.

The front and back page of your softcover book may have the glue line slightly visible BUT again it's not really that problematic, in my opinion.

I am disappointed that their binding does not involve the use of signatures or stitches.   Never mind we will just have to  work with that.  As far as I am aware - it's not  an option on Blurb.

THIS POST WAS PROMPTED BY MARY TAYLORS COMMENT IN RESPONSE TO AN

EARLIER POST BY TERESA (LIBRARY OF THE LOST LOBA) thanks Mary who said"

What I'm concerned about is getting the POD book apart without destroying the pages at the binding? 
Any thoughts? 
I wonder if the paper choice make a difference? 

I don't want to create a mess. I want to take it apart so that I have single page sheets that I will then add a flexible woven spine to,  so it will lay flat and accommodate the dimension of the elements I want to include. 

Blurb does boast that their binding is solid.. I will need the full page so chopping the spine is not a good option.

I hope this post is useful in this respect.

I am now going to look into what a flexible woven spine is ??


Any suggestions regarding how to rebind the books together ( that is for those of us who take them apart - its not a requirement  - each of us will approach our alterations differently.