That's just silly. You screw the pages into the spine with a little allen key they give you.

I went and bought one of these allen keys to disassemble a well worn piece of Ikea furniture, only to unzip the back of the chair during disassembly, to find the allen wrench.

Spent a good half hour looking for the manual online, only to remember Ikea manuals are all pictures. I found the manual and was reminded of this. About to give up, I took a risk, and thankfully bought the right sized key. Allen wrenches are made in both Imperial and Metric scales; Ikea, being Swedish, meant correctly picking metric.

I later looked through the manual, and on the 2nd to last page, it documented the correct key size.

Hopefully they don't use VeloBind 11 prong binding strips, but then only include 10 prongs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VeloBind

>It is possible to take a soft covered Velo-bound book, remove the old binding and cover, and re-bind it with a hard cover, which may be pre-embossed for more a more impressive appearance. This rapid up-grade was the cause of the short-lived motto "Soft to hard in 30 seconds!" That was first done when the firm was located in Sunnyvale, California.

The flat packages from ikea are so amazing to me. Pretty sure no other furniture company has any that are nearly as compact.

All low-end assemble-yourself furniture (like Office Depot) is flat packed.

> like Office Depot

Which doesn't exist here. Guess I should've specified austria before.

Instructions unclear, every page is upside down!