Hate covering books with sticky plastic - I have found a possible solution - my two dds love their books covered with wrapping paper of their choosing and then I used to fight with the bleeding contact to cover the books - well I notice in BigW the other day - plastic covers Marbig brand - packs for exercise books and A4 size books- the ones for exercise books are a doodle - god love them. The A4 size ones needed adjustment for my two as they had very thin A4 size books. I love it.
Having said that - they did not make scrap book size ones and I have 15 of the blighters to cover.