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Layman's Guide to Book-Binding
Published: 2010-03-29 22:52:39 +0000 UTC; Views: 45370; Favourites: 879; Downloads: 6931
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Download, unzip, and double click the file labeled "index.htm" to view the tutorial!Quick note: petty much everything in this tutorial uses technical terms, since I am not and probably never will be a professional book-binder and don't know the real terms for most things myself.
This tutorial includes:
- a tool list
- what to plan for
- advice for choosing materials
- all about soft covers (pros, cons, how to make them)
- all about hard covers (pros, cons, how to make them)
- FIVE binding methods
- and even more!
I hope you find this helpful
This file will be continually updated as I get better/new photos to add, or learn better ways to do things.v. 1.0
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Thank you for the DD- I hope everybody finds this useful! As a quick note, I cannot possibly thank everybody who commented and fav'd individually, so I'll say it here- thank you all!
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Comments: 96
The problem is that the file isn't a .zip one, and when I change the .jpg into .zip, is just do not open with the zip!
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are you trying to right click and save the image? It's just a preview. Look for the button to the right, by the Add to Favourites button.
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This tutorial was the best I could find, it was so helpful! My first book is almost finished
Thanks!
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I'm glad you found it so helpful! Send me a link if you submit your book as a deviation; I'd love to see it
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You're welcome, I'm very glad it was helpful to you!
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OMG I have been trying to find something (anything) that would show me exactly step by step how to do this and then by some miracle I stumbled on your page and now I am the happiest chick alive
thanks so much for taking the time to make this tutorial and post it here 
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I'm so glad you find it helpful!
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OMG I really did
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No, it's not a problem! I'm glad you found it useful; I was worried that my lack of expertise would make the tutorial a big piece of garbage. I'm really happy to be told otherwise. ^^
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I have Bi Polar and so I have like a thousand projects all laying around unfinished and last week I made a promise that I would do them one by one until they were done without getting distracted lol and your tutorial is about two days away still if I keep this pace.. But I will post a pic of the finished book for you ( I mean if you want)
I promise your tutorial was not garbage and it was the only one I found that explained things simply and in a literal step by step method. which was just awesome. Sometimes I think people forget that some people are looking for a tut because they have no clue and want to get one lol
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That sounds great! Best of luck
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Awesome tutorial, used it and it turned out great.
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That's wonderful, thank you
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Thank you
I took a book arts class a few years ago and this was excellent to refresh my memory
<3
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That is so great of you to make this! I haven't had a chance to try anything out yet, but I am super excited.
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You're very welcome, I hope you love it as much as I do!
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Just exactly what i was looking for, thank you so much!
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You're very welcome! Good luck with your book-binding
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You are an angel! Thank you, thank you for sharing this! I want to start bookbinding and this is so helpfull!!! It's hard to find good tutorials!
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I'm so glad you found it useful! Good luck in your book-binding, and thanks for the lovely comment
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Wow, very thorough and detailed with nice step by step instructions!
Thank you for putting so much effort into the process.
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Thank you very much, and you're welcome!
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very thorough and well written, I like reading it a lot thanks for putting the time and effort in
It may be a bit overwhelming for people who just want to make a sumple notebook or art journal for themselves.
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Thank you!
I realized that after I was up to my eyeballs in the mess. XD But I figure it's better to be thorough than vague; there are other tutorials out there that are simpler and shorter if this one doesn't fit the bill.
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wow!! thanks for putting in the effort to do this! it's so cool of you to share your knowledge ... not many people are willing to do that
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You're very welcome, I'm glad all that effort putting this together didn't go to waste!
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Its really great XD like practically makes me want a tutorial tutorial lol. ha... don't do that too it'll kill ya.
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XDD Maybe when my brain isn't so fried.
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Naw I'd never be able to follow all that computery stuff anyway.
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I'll take a look. ^.^ You must have been busy!
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It looks very helpful! 
I was still able to view it all by opening each file one by one.
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hm, I'll try downloading it and testing it. Was it all of the pages? Or did you click a link on one page that didn't work?
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The links to deviantART pages worked, but all the links to other parts of the tutorial that I clicked on didn't work, and I tried links on most of the pages. It would say, "cannot find server" or something like that.
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hm, I just tested it and it worked fine :/ Maybe it's your operating system/browser?
I'm going to try and view the tutorial on a different computer at some point this week, just to make sure it isn't MY computer.
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I'll let you know if it works alright on other computers as soon as I find out.
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Wow! This tut is huge and has so much great info. Thanks for sharing
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You're very welcome! I hope you find it useful :3
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