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Excellent- we already have an expert on board!<br>
I'm going to tell more of our locals about this anyway- if nothing
else, maybe more volunteers.<br>
regards<br>
Jay<br>
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Emma Jane Hogbin wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Monday 20 April 2009 5:23:38 pm adam hyde wrote:
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<pre wrap="">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
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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:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://emmajane.net/tutorials">http://emmajane.net/tutorials</a>
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:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://emmajane.net/files/coptic_0.pdf">http://emmajane.net/files/coptic_0.pdf</a>
regards,
emma
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