Review: Self-Adhesive Laminating Sheets STINK!

I asked my Darling Wife to pick up some laminating sheets so we could protect some of our homeschoolin' stuff. We have probably run a thousand sheets through hot laminating presses. She came home with some self-adhesive laminating sheets by mistake, but what the heck. It's something new, paid for, and solves a need Right Here Right Now, so I tried them out.

These things stink. The concept is bad, and I don't see any way to make the execution good.

You will get them crooked (fortunately these peeled off without damage)
You will get them crooked repeatedly for every sheet you protect
You will get air bubbles that are hard to press out
You may damage your papers trying to remove the laminating sheet
You may get creases and wrinkles, just trying to lay down the sheet
This stinks.
By the way, you get a chance to mess up every page TWICE because it takes two sheets to cover one page.

By way of contrast, consider a well-functioning hot press: You put a sheet into a laminating slip, and put them both into a paper folder. You load the folder into the press and the press makes it hot and smashes the sheet into a plastic-protected wonderful thing. You almost cannot mess up the hot laminating process.

If you have a couple of sheets to protect and don't have a hot laminating machine ($20 on eBay) then maybe try self-adhesive laminating sheets. Otherwise, avoid these like the plague and use a good hot laminating machine instead.