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 6 - Gluing the cover to the book
When doing this step, always use your best copy of the cover first. I used my
worst copy first, and of course it worked perfectly the first time.
First, I held the cover up to a light, and traced the corners of the spine and then
used a straight edge to connect the corners. I made sure that the book spine fit
nicely into that space. Then I scored the lines lightly (very lightly!) with an Xacto
knife and folded along the lines (Ed Note: I use the point on a compass or
something similar to score lines when I work on
paper models. I would be too afraid of
actually cutting the paper with an X-acto...).
I checked the book inside the cover again, then lined up the book inside the cover, and
set it on the front cover, making sure the book was in right side up, with front facing
front. I opended the cover coated the inside inch with glue, and the cardboard strip
with glue I put was paper underneath the cardboard strip, above the pages of the book,
so if glue squeezed out, it would not get on the book. I lined up the cover and book,
and pressed them together. I put some weights on it, and left it for an hour. Then I
turned the whole thing over, and repeated the process with the front side.
The only thing left was to trim the cover, which I did with and Xacto knife and a
straight edge.
Finished Product
Done!
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