Anyone know where in Taiwan one goes to get a thick document bound? In England you’d just go to a photocopy place, but the photocopy places here are 7/11s!
Try Guang Nan Stationers or find a copy store. Ask one of your local friends or one of the other students to direct you. Good luck!
Incidentally, I Googled “Guang Nan” and found my own post at the top of the list. That’s fast. I wonder why other entries take ages to appear on a search engine.
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I got mine done in a photocopy shop in the little maze of alleys between Roosevelt and Xinsheng S. Road near Taida. I’m sure there are many other places. Most copy shops near universities will do this. They’ll take your thesis on CD-ROM or thumb drive (sometimes) and print it out for you, and bind it, etc. etc. It wasn’t very expensive per copy but the university required so many copies (why I cannot imagine) that it did total up to quite a chunk of change in the end.
Congrats on getting to the point where you need to think about binding it! :bravo:
there should be a number of places near universities that will do it for you.
congrats - i’m about two-three weeks from that point as well.
Thanks, but I’ve been a crusty old doc for ages 
Congratulations xtrain!
I’m applying for a job, and they want to see my thesis. Why, I’ve no idea, it’s pretty awful!
Doesn’t need to be a fancy job like a bindery would do, just an improvement on making a hole in the corner and tying it with string. Anywhere around Dunhua-Fuxing-Zhongxiao that would do that? I’ve never noticed any copy shops, to be honest (but then I do tend to walk around with my eyes closed!)
For a job – you might want to have it re-printed, if that’s an option (if you have an electronic file) to widen those margins and tweak the spacing and font size. Their primary concern (I swear I am not making this up!) may well be how LONG it is, not what it says.
I was denied a full-time job teaching at Tai-da because, among other insightful criticisms of my dissertation, it wasn’t long enough for them (and that was 30% of their rating matrix). :loco: My supervisor, on the other hand, told me about a colleague of his whose doctoral dissertation was six (yes, 6) pages long. The printed equivalent of “face”: “length”.
How absurd! If I get turned down on that basis, so be it: they can stuff their silly job. It’s 162 pages longer than your supervisor’s colleague’s thesis, so I suppose it should be OK.
What I’m finding really annoying about this application is that they insist on this enormous amount of documentation before they’ll consider you. I applied to 2 universities in the UK (didn’t get either job ;-() and all they wanted at the applcation stage was an emailed CV and cover letter.
Well, that’s because (obviously) your qualifications on paper (which make the uni look good for government reviews) are far more important than anything you’ve done. Silly foreigner! And everyone knows that a long dissertation means a smart writer!