[FM Discuss] book making

[Jay Maechtlen]

Excellent- we already have an expert on board!
I'm going to tell more of our locals about this anyway- if nothing else, 
maybe more volunteers.
regards
Jay


Emma Jane Hogbin wrote:
> On Monday 20 April 2009 5:23:38 pm adam hyde wrote:
>   
>> As for the book making itself. Adam Thomas, a friend from Berlin, and I
>> have made some nice books with a bound spine. Its a very simple method
>> but can look very nice if done well. The thing is, it brings the cost of
>> the book to produce under what Lulu can produce them for. So I am
>>     
>
> This is probably only true if your time has no value...
>
> Binding books by hand is a lot of fun and can be very rewarding (I was a fine 
> bookbinder for a number of years), but it isn't a task that should be taken on 
> lightly. Things that will seriously affect hand binding:
> - number of pages (printing 2-up x 200 pages is a lot of printing for a home 
> printer and if one sheet mis-feeds you can potentially wreck a whole print 
> job)
> - grain of the paper (assuming you are making "classic" sized books that are 
> merely A4 or US Letter folded in half) a book can end up refusing to close 
> nicely, open flat, or worse, tearing itself apart if the paper grain is running 
> perpendicular to the spine
> - space (making one or two books on a kitchen table is no problem, but making 
> as few as six can require an infinitely larger space)
> - cover materials (hard cover can use framing board, softcover will be flimsy, 
> etc).
>
> For a few tutorials on hand binding you can check out the PDFs that I've 
> uploaded at:
> http://emmajane.net/tutorials
>
> The most appropriate binding is probably the Coptic binding which uses no 
> adhesives, but does require the pages to be printed in signatures. This one 
> can be downloaded directly from:
> http://emmajane.net/files/coptic_0.pdf
>
>
> regards,
> emma
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