Lay-Flat Bookbinding Build Diary



Introduction
Content
Printing
Clamping
Gluing
The Cover
Gluing the Cover
Things to try


Links

Cornell notetaking system

Japanese five-point binding

Perfect binding

LaTeX

Texniccenter Latex IDE

GIMP Image program

Barcode Generator

Materials

Notebook TEX

Notebook PDF

GIMP Book Cover File

PDF Book Cover File



And of course, take a look at builddiary.net the page for all things excessive-hobby related.





Things to try

Usually at the end of a project I see a list of things that the author might change if they did the project again. I had very few problems, but one of them was creating the cover. Because my pages were 8.5 by 11 inches, that means my wrap around cover had to be 8.5 + 8.5 + spine width, making it wider then the normal 11 by 17 inch sheet that is normally available. I found larger card paper at Art Media and cut it down to size for Kinko's to print.

Here is a list of things I would like to try next:
  1. Create a hardcover
  2. Create a notebook with more pages
  3. Try a different glue
  4. Use a different type of cloth (i.e. with no adhesive)
  5. Create a new notebook cover design