Bookbinding: Gawayne and the Green Knight
I found Gawayne and the Green Knight on Librivox and listened to it while working. It's an updated version of one of the arthurian legends (well, I say updated... it was published about 1903, so it's fairly old by now, and that's why it's on librivox of course), in verse, both funny and unexpectedly touching in places. Gawayne has been one of my
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I actually chanced upon your journal because of the book you bound for the fanfic novel earlier. I was wondering how do you print the pages into folios - do you use Microsoft Word? Or is there a special program you use to print them before you bind them?
Do you bind books as a hobby or is it your job or something?
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I use Word for that, yes. I wish I knew how to use a fancier program, and I'm hoping to learn from the design students at my school, but I can get really far with Word too.
I'm in my third year studying bookbinding, and then I'm hoping (hopinghopinghoping) to find a job in that area. Otherwise I'll just have it as a hobby until I can start my own business ^^
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Do all books that are bound these days, are they all machine bound? I know that paper-backs are machine bound, undoubtedly, but are hard-covers all machine bound too?
Does that mean you will just print books and bind 'em by hand? Those would make seriously beautiful gifts! but then it would become tedious if you have to do like 50 copies of the same book, isn't it?
I use openoffice, and I was thinking of just trying to print a book on A5 and just use cardboard or something, to bind them (simple glue only, no thread because. um. too much effort?) but it's not gonna be anything like what you do. Which is works of art.
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Binding with thread isn't very hard! A simple chain stitch or oriental stitch will make the book so much more durable!
However, if you're gonna do it with glue, here is an easy way to make really durable books: http://www.greenchairpress.com/blog/?page_id=613 (unless you know that already, ofc ^^)
I'd love to see it - if you ever do make a book, please drop me a line! =D
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