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DIY Bookbinding: Bind Your Own Book by Hand
Project Book
PUTTING YOUR
WORDS TOGETHER
WITH SIGNATURES,
GLUE, AND STITCHES
DIY
Bookbinding
Bind Your Own Book by Hand
Brian Sawyer
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Project Book
DIY Bookbinding
Bind Your Own Book by Hand
Bookbinding may well be a dying art in this digital age, but you can still learn how to do
it yourself with this easy-to-follow ebook. In fact, you can reverse the course of evolution
and convert this particular digital specimen into a durable, hand-stitched book that will
last for generations. When you’re inished, this ebook will truly be “hands-on.”
O’Reilly Senior Editor Brian Sawyer takes you through the process with step-by-step
instructions and scores of instructive photographs. All you need to bring to the table
are a few simple materials—including magazines you’d like to preserve. Discover how
simple, unmessy, fun, and satisfying binding books by hand can be.
n Print the pages of this ebook or remove the existing cover from a magazine
n Create signatures and prepare them for stitching
n Glue the spine
n Build and attach the cover boards
n Cover the exterior and interior of the cover boards
US $4.99
ISBN: 978-1-449-307691
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DIY Bookbinding
MAKE: PROJECTS
Table of Contents
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II DIY BOOKBINDING
DIY Bookbinding
Copyright © 2011 Brian Sawyer
Portions of this booklet appeared in abbreviated form in MAKE
Magazine, Volume 05.
To comment or ask technical questions about this book,
send email to: brian@briansawyer.net
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DIY Bookbinding
MAKE: PROJECTS
Introduction
Magazines aren’t really built to last, and in the rush to digital delivery,
some folks might argue that they’re all but obsolete anyway. But for
makers who work with their hands and bibliophiles who still appreciate
the physical artifact of the written word, there will always be something
special about print. If you’re one of these stubborn Luddites, you might
just want your library of magazines to last. You might even want your
digital content (even this very document) to take on new life as an
aesthetic object that survives as a dead-tree edition.
When you’ve completed this 32-page project (when printed double-
sided, it’s an even signature ), you’ll have a durable, attractive hardcover
copy of this booklet (or your favorite magazine, in the event that the
two are not one and the same) that will last forever and lie flat, allowing
future generations to carry on the craft and tradition of preserving
bona-fide pieces of printed matter.
Most thick magazines or paperback books (such as MAKE , used as
an example in this project) are perfect bound : individual leaves (a leaf
represents two pages, front and back, on one sheet of paper—just
like what you’ll have if you print this article on 8½" x 11" paper) are
collected and glued directly to the spine, where the front and back
cover (a single continuous wrapped sheet) meet. Shorter magazines
are often saddle-stitch bound (longer sheets, representing two leaves
each, are folded and stapled at their spine), which actually cuts
out a number of steps for hand binding. If you’ve decided to bind a
saddle-stitched magazine (or several into a single book), you’ve saved
yourself a lot of trouble and can skip ahead to stitching the signatures
on page 9.
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