What I really enjoyed most about The Thesis Centre is that my visit there signified that I would never ever, ever have to a piece of academic writing again! Whoop!
There is a sort of strange feeling of satisfaction to be had while holding a book with your name embossed in gold on it. Even if said book had a print run of only four, and even if the contents of the book is unreadable dross, as my dissertation surely was.
The Thesis Centre have the option of a five hour binding, so don't worry if you only finish your thesis/dissertation in a mad rush only hours ahead of the deadline. They charge a little more for this service, but even though they could completely have your balls in a vice and could charge you through the nose, they don't, it's only a few euros extra.
I think that for me to my four 40 something page books bound in the 5 hour service wasn't much more than a hundred euro, though I could be wrong on this, as I have developed a defensive mental block about my dissertation and any dissertation related activities over the last number of months (like the way that women can't remember childbirth afterwards).
One thing I will say though: avoid having colour pictures printed and bound there, as that inflates the price to astronomical levels.
I would like to dedicate this review especially to Rónán C, who has his own twelve thousand, that's right, TWELVE THOUSAND word dissertation to start in September, so I hope that he will find this particularly illuminating.
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