{"id":15667,"date":"2007-10-20T15:16:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-20T19:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/hameblog\/2007\/10\/20\/book-stuff-ive-just-discovered\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:49:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:49:45","slug":"book-stuff-ive-just-discovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/2007\/10\/20\/book-stuff-ive-just-discovered\/","title":{"rendered":"Book-stuff I\u2019ve just discovered"},"content":{"rendered":"

This really belongs as an addendum to the introductory “Do-It-Yourself Book Press<\/a>” article I wrote for No Media Kings, but for some reason I’m having trouble submitting forms on that site. So, hopefully people looking there will end up seeing this here:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

I’m about to give a bookbinding tutorial next weekend, so I’ve gone back and revisited my process and looked up some info, so here’s some updated material. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

First, a great YouTube video of one fella’s perfect-binding process (using low-budget materials, but with very nice results):
http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OcwwQDIlCKE<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

And now I must bow before a far superior effort and move out of frame: I found a website offering a book about perfect-binding at home, and it contains nearly everything<\/em> I’ve learned over the past two years and then some. Three caveats about it, before I give you the URL: <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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  1. It’s a commercial product and costs $49. But I would very happily pay that to go back in time and hand that to myself, sparing me from a lot of trial and error. As it is, I picked up a few new ideas from it. So it’s $49 for an e-book, but I still think it’s well worth it.<\/li>\n
  2. The website is one of those hellacious late-night infomercial-types that uses many fonts, many large<\/em> fonts, and promises you absolute salvation through “super-secret reports”. You will feel as if you had a bath in Coca-Cola after looking at it.<\/li>\n
  3. For such an incredibly detailed and useful guide (the author even includes ISO and<\/em> North American paper sizes for every example), I’m amazed that no one spent half an hour grammar- and spell-checking the thing. As someone who writes copy for a living, I had to keep suspending judgment to accept that the content was still of excellent quality.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Okay, here’s the site: Easy Bookbinding<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

    Finally, for my self-publishing friends in the UK, here are some pieces of information about officially registering your book: <\/p>\n<\/p>\n