Book binding

[Paintdog]

Book binding is a moderately difficult skill or, alternatively, something you can pay an office supplies retail outlet to do for you.

I often have sheaves of loose paper I want to be in some sort of booklet form & the former is beyond me & the latter can be pricey.

I don't like the cheap, plastic booklets of clear plastic envelopes so, what to do?

Two, simple methods. If the papers are downloaded information eg Napoleonic uniforms etc, I use this method involving glue, gaff tape & a bulldog clip. It provides a surprisingly robust finished product.



I also have rule sets that need binding but these benefit from being able to sit flat on a table. That is, ring bound. The easiest way is to buy cheap A4 ring bind notebooks, costing less than $5 then trim & glue the pages of rules onto the existing pages.

I'm currently gluing my home grown Late Antiquity rules into one such note book that already (on the flip side) has a set of the free 'Valour & Fortitude' rules. I stick a cover for each rule set on front & "back" (now also a front). This is very useful for pdfs rule sets you've legally purchased & downloaded.

None of this may be new to you but I thought it might be useful.

donald

[beefcake]

Nice find there thank you. I've been meaning to print out some books so might give this a go for them. It seems she has some other videos like leather bound books too which may be worth a watch if you really want to go to town on your books.

[Daeothar]

I've followed this one guy on YT once who bound the three D&D 5th ed base books (DM Guide, Players Handbook and Monster Manual), which are not small tomes in and of themselves, into one big leatherbound book. He took them out of their original binding and then proceeded to combine them using traditional bookbinding techniques.

The amount of specialized skills and tools is quite daunting, but the result was awesome. not something I have the time or inclination to attempt. But something on a smaller scale than that monument of a tome might eventually be required/wanted...