Abstract: An article for forming a protective cover for a book has a first sheet for forming a protective cover with an adhesive coating and a backing sheet. One sheet has delineations facilitating the removal of surplus portions of the first sheet in the regions of the ends of the spine and corners of the book being covered. The spine delineations may be convergent series of regularly spaced parallel lines. The corner delineations may be regularly spaced parallel lines which traverse corner regions. The backing layer is formed as three separately removal portions whereby the book spine and each book cover may be covered in separate steps.