If you’ve made it this far, you are already half way there. This step is the most time consuming of all, so if you make it through the end you are as good as finished ;) This binding technique will be sewing through the fold, where the signatures of the book are folded and stitched [...]

Before we start sewing everything together, we’re going to need several holes in each booklet to pass the thread through the folds. Instead of sewing directly and piercing each one on the fly with the needle -which, by the way, is hard unless you’re from planet Krypton-, we’re going to prepare each booklet beforehand so [...]

Not much to say here. Once you’ve reached this step you should already have everything printed in a pile of 5-page subgroups correctly arranged for folding. You only need to be careful when selecting the pages that should go in each booklet. I do the folding manually. Just take the pages, align them properly so [...]

This involves the process of arranging the pages into several booklets and printing them. This might seem stupid, but printing a book is sometimes trivial and sometimes a lot trickier than it looks. You need to print 2 pages in each side of the sheet, and arrange them in a way that results in properly [...]

This isn’t going to be a technical post for once. Besides computers I do have more mundane hobbies you know. A couple of years back I started bookbinding as a remedy for a particularly stressful month. Manual tasks always seem to have a relaxing effect on me, so it seemed as good choice as any. [...]