| Are you printing an ebook, booklet, or 100+page | | | | binding is ideal when your ebook or printed document |
| report from your computer? Odds are you'll need | | | | is too big to be saddle-stitched and needs side |
| to bind it so you can easily read it off the computer. | | | | bindings/staplings. This is commonly seen with small |
| Before you can do a good job of handmade | | | | calendars and address books - sometimes even |
| book-binding, you need to know how to put | | | | magazines. |
| together the finished book with various bookbinding | | | | 3. Perfect binding |
| methods. | | | | You'll want to go for perfect binding if you're printing |
| Here three basic ways you can get started printing | | | | a fiction novel or anything that should be in basic |
| and binding your own books at home. These are all | | | | paperback format. Telephone directories and |
| fairly cheap and don't require a lot of materials. | | | | booklets also see perfect binding very often. Note: |
| 1. Ring binding | | | | you'll pretty much always need glue for this one. |
| This is the best form of binding when you need to | | | | These are some basic handmade book-binding |
| make potential revisions or insert new material. | | | | methods that you can use for getting started with |
| Manuals are great for ring binding, as you may want | | | | your own bookbinding endeavors. If you've never |
| to go back and put new pages in or take some | | | | bound your own books before, ring binding is |
| pages out, and ring binding makes it easy. | | | | probably best to start as it requires the least amount |
| 2. Stitched binding | | | | of materials. |
| Also called saddle stapling or bookletmaking, stitched | | | | |