r/bookbinding

This is my newest comic book, titled “A Real Good Question”

I didn’t have any luck with haunting those infamous Maitland-Smith stacked books tables so I built my own.

Hi everyone, finished my first attempt at bookbinding and wanted to share it here. Had a lot of fun, but it has some rough spots. Would appreciate any constructive feedback/tips.

Wanted a physical copy of this book but it’s not available to buy yet. Challenged myself to do it without buying anything and just do it with stuff I had around the house. Used the side of a sharpie as a makeshift bone folder, pieces of a tablet computer box for the cover boards and a quilting square and some contact spray adhesive to make the book cloth.

Used tutorials from Sea Lemon and DAS Bookbinding.

It’s definitely not perfect but it’s quite serviceable and feels great in my hands.

Let's assume, for the sake of brevity, that I want to print copyright-expired books from a place like gutenberg.org for my own personal collection. In general, how much would it cost me per book? Let's assume that the average book I want, were I to buy it instead would cost me $20 with shipping included from places like amazon - would printing it be cheaper than that or not? I think I should mention that I don't need fancy bindings

Let's also assume the that average amount of pages per book is 500, just as a detail if that helps you come up with a general price. I'm assuming that's going to mean 250 pieces of papers worth of A4 paper (I'm Europe-based) per book?

Sorry if this is not the right place for this kind of a question

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Hello everyone! I'm kinda new to bookbinding, so far I made only some personalized Coptic stitch journals for my friend and a couple of hardcovers. Now I have this book , there actually two of them, them my friend ask me if I could repair, I said I could try. now from my limited understanding these books use a perfect binding, right? So to repair them, I should use the same method or is there any other method I could use? But beside the text block itself, I'm not sure what to do about the cover. I obviously would like to preserve it somehow.

Any suggestions are well accepted. thanks everyone in advance.

Hi, I am an avid reader and love my textbooks as well. I have zero experience binding books and am not really looking to get into it as a hobby. However, I would really like to be able to repair the pictured textbook before it gets any worse. It is still bound pretty tight, but has obvious signs of wear. Is this something I can fix without specialized equipment and a basic knowhow? Any advice is appreciated, thanks.

Alright everyone. I am pulling my hair out over this one. I’ve been dabbling in making my own book cloth by ironing on adhesive to the back and tissue paper onto that (I’ve also tried mulberry paper). It looks great after I glue it on to the boards. My problems start when I try to iron on the HTV. I don’t know why, but the HTV doesn’t stick very easily to this cloth, so I have to hold the iron over it for longer than I would normal book cloth. But when I do that, the adhesive shows through the cloth. I’ve tried ironing on lower heat (the HTV doesn’t stick), holding the iron on for less time (the HTV doesn’t stick), doubling up (2 layers) on fabric (the fabric is then too thick and not easily folded and glued to the board and turns out messy-looking)…

I’ve included a few pictures of examples.

Does anyone have any guidance on this?