We used plain brown wrapping paper, the kind that's normally used for wrapping up parcels. Never even heard of this lol.

#BrownBagGang

Claims to be an owl, is actually a kiwi. Really makes you think.

I think the equivalent of that in my area were these nylon book socks. We would stretch them over the textbook covers.

we used brown paper grocery bags

idk about commercial names but contact paper/film is still a thing pretty sure?

we used like nylon stretchy covers. We called them book condoms.

Every year it would either be part of the first class to cover your new textbooks in something, or out would be part of the homework assignment

It was also a big thing in Australia. I had a super mario sunshine one despite never having played it

we had a plasticky thing that you had to neatly fold around the inside of the cover of the book. there was also one that was self adhesive, you pulled the thing from the backing sheet and then stuck it to your book.

and yes as soon as you got your books you had to wrap them up

i simply did not damage my books 😌

I used normal clear tape

Not in the UK we didn't. Not sure why you'd need to? These books would be filled before they were ever destroyed and once they're filled they go in a box never to ever be seen again.

Can we just cover schoolchildren in it? To prevent any mishaps.

It was a thing in Australia and I remember if you did it the schools wouldn't buy the books back. But it was damned if you do, damned if you don't, because they wouldn't buy back damaged books either.

cover their school books in duraseal

At first i read that "durasteel" and i was like "yeah i get that school is harsh place for books but that's little excessive"

Aren't you Australian

I grew up in Southern California, USA and I remember this shit in elementary school, I think.

We did it because over here the textbooks were reused the next year. I dunno if books are even used in school anymore or if everything's on a computer now.

Man oh man. We had to wrap our books in a type of thick, glossy paper. The books were borrowed from the school, so they expected them back in flawless condition. I kid you not, we even had to take sandpaper and file the 3 "paper sides" of the books to remove any stray pencil marks.

It was run by nuns, go figure.

Yeah, it's was a thing in finland as well. idk what duraseal is, but I assume it's that self-adhesive plastic wrap stuff (we called it contact plastic or something?). We could only use transparent wrap though, no fun allowed. Still, it was an important ritual I remember. New school year, 15 new books, let's fucking go!! I was always really bad at it though, so my books would have creased wraps with tons of air bubbles. I thought it was really satisfying, so I'd (poorly) go home wrap my own books just for fun as well.