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.
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Step 1 - Creating the content
I find that few bookbinding pages ever make any mention of the content that the
person is binding, but in this case it is important to my project.
Although I found a few Cornell paper templates online, I decided to create my own
template using
LaTeX to create a
PDF that I could
print double sided. The lined side can be used for written notes, and the graph paper
on the opposite side can be used for diagrams and drawings, as well as the occasional
doodle and grid game.
I played with the idea that I would do two pages to a 8 1/2 by 11 page, but decided
that having to slice the pages made it too complicated for my impatient mind.
Besides, it is really is nice to have a full page to work with when writing notes
at work.
The content here can be whatever else is worth binding. I think I would be fun to see
people binding their thesis, or first novel, or your reference notes for your building
project using this technique. One of my coworkers mentioned binding his sketches. The
most important thing that was mentioned in my researches was that this is a good
technique for binding "mid-sized" books.
Another cool and exciting application is
Gutenburg Project texts. They have a huge
collection of out of copyright and classic texts of all types. You could typeset
your favorite books, and have a customized book collection, with custom covers for
each book. The trouble with Gutenberg text is that all formatting is stripped from
the test, but you can reformat it to HTML or LaTeX using the interesting
GutenMark converter.
I am also thinking about printing a LaTeX manual, and a GIMP manual, and binding
those, too.
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