Make Your Own Paperback Using Basic Tools // Adventures in Bookbinding
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- Опубликовано: 5 июн 2024
- In this video I demonstrate how you could make your own paperback book using basic tools you probably have at home.
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00:00 DIY Paperback
00:40 The model book
01:30 Printing the text
02:10 Preparing to apply the adhesive to the spine
04:35 Apply adhesive to the spine
05:00 How a paperback opens
07:05 Making the cover
12:30 Applying the cover
14:30 Optional sawn in cords
17:00 Finished book
The text was supplied by Binders Editions
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PUR adhesives = Polyurethane Reactive adhesives
Information about PUR and EVA-Hotmelt
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Can you reactivate PUR adhesive
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Discussion of Perfect binding and Double-Fan binding
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Sawn in cords with Lumbeck binding.
Single Leaf Binding by Nick Cowlishaw in Skin Deep
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The Thames and Hudson Manual of Bookbinding by Arthur W. Johnson
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The #DASBookbinding Channel is the perfect starting point for learning #bookbinding. It covers foundation skills, simple projects, technical methods, materials and more advanced bookbinding projects. The best way to find what you are looking for is the DAS Bookbinding RUclips Channel guide.
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English Closed Caption titles by Carrie Snyder coming soon. Thank you!!
The music used in this video is performed by Jon Sayles. Jon has some great classical guitar music on his website, which he shares freely. 
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I’ll continue to say it. You’re the patron saint of bookbinding. Well done. Thank you for passing on your knowledge.
I hope you are aware of how loved you are. Thank you for all your hard work!
Thank you for sharing this. I was the front office person for a large commercial printing firm in the 1980's and became something of a paper afficianado.
Speaking as a Southpaw, all blank books and ledgers are between unusable and inconvenient. Someday someone will sell top bound journals. Or at least that's the dream.
Thanks a lot. I do mainly paperbacks, since my bindings are quite utilitarian. I just need to keep together handwritten notes, or printed texts I want to study and annotate (I print them with big margins so I can take notes...). When gathering loose sheets (handwritten notes), I like to use the double fan binding that you used, and that I learned thanks to you. When I print a book, I like to print in signatures (pdf software and even MS Word automate this now, so it is quite easy), and hand sew them with as thin a thread as I dare. It opens more flat, and I find this more confortable to annotate. But I don't bother to make even a casing : I just glue a paperback cover, like you did here. I print the cover on heavy paper, it is enough for my needs. Double fanning is the easiest and qwickest way, though, and gives a nice result.
I love your "two bricks and clamp" press ! Simple and effective.
I love the fact that you clearly anticipated the sewn in thread question and answered it, as it was definitely in my mind. :D Thanks for the great video!
I’ve been doing this instead of sewing when I bind hardcover copies of my fanfic and so far I’m really enjoying the finished product. It’ll be interesting to see how it holds up over time.
It was fun and interesting to watch. I don't believe I'll ever be double fan bindings myself, but it's nice to learn about it nonetheless.
I've done the thread one in the past as well, nowadays I just stitch sections (get it trimmed at a local print shop), then I make the soft cover and add it.
Notes on this: The print shop I trim the bound sections and the print shop where I make my covers are different, since at the first one the quality of printing and how they treat customers fell into a bottomless pit. I cannot wait for the day I can just get the things trimmed at the second shop too.
Now, onto covers, in my own experience, laser printed ones will have the toner rub off with heavy use. What I do nowadays is laminating it with transparent self adhesive film before cutting it from the A3 page.
Personally, due to where I live with currency taxes, shipping costs and customs, it's been way more cost-effective to buy books as digital goods and print and bind them for my own use than to just buy the physical thing. I can say, it's also fun and rewarding to do so.
Thank you for your superb service and professionalism 🙏👍 your expertise comes always when I need it 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
You make this look so easy. Well deserved respect.
I started off making paperbacks using the double fan method. I love how durable and sturdy it feels, but I find the PVA glue used causes a lot of 'throwup' in the spine. I recently bought a small thermal binder to compare, and love how the hot melt glue adds more rigidity to the spine, but you definietly have to roughen up the paper edges and/or create some cuts with a blade before applying the glue, or it feels super fragile.
Thanks for the video DAS!
I love your videos; Informative and relaxing, thank you. I watched it during the morning drive to work, it made the boring traffic a little bit more fun.
That was great I've just re bound some old paperback this way, good to know I was on the right track! Really useful knowledge there Das Thank you
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fantastic! exactly what I was looking for! I have a lot of ebooks that I want to print out, because screens are torture on the eyes. bought a thermal binding machine, which works fine for slim volumes, but the trouble is that the pre-made covers have a page range you can't stray too far from. And they get really flimsy for thick volumes. The stuff I need to keep on hand in the office are mostly reference works/manuals that can run into the thousands of pages. On 70 gsm A4 that's far thicker than the average dictionary. Your video gave me a lot of ideas on how to make them stick together reasonably well without getting a huge stapler. Thanks man!
I’ve been looking for someone who does handmade paperbacks- I love the look of vintage pop-fantasy and pulp novels and I wanted to re-bind some modern paperbacks into vintage styled ones! Thank you for the info!
I'm really happy I found your channel. I want to get into bookbinding and your videos are always interesting!!
this is incredible man!
This channel makes me want to build a library of hand made books. They can be so pricy at times 🥲
many thanks, more new things to try
¡Viva! Muchas gracias señor de los libros, llevaba muchísimo tiempo esperando por este vídeo, usted es el mejor :)
Aah thank you so much, this was so informative as usual 😊 I know you ended up trimming yours at the end anyway, but so many props to how even you kept your pages throughout the process. Whenever I’ve done paperbacks the edges ended up looking super rough I couldn’t imagine not having a guillotine when making one. 😅😅
Thank you very much , now I know how to proceed .
Nicely done - Lumbecken a great technique to have in ones "
toolbox".
thank you !!
Thanks very much.
This is so interesting! I wana make my own book!!!
I really want to print off some my old sci fi and fantasy books that are out of print and public domain and bind them now.
This is a great channel and how you explain your process is excellent. If I could make an observation though,: I prefer videos that are narrated to not have the sound of the activity as well unless it is very quiet as it is distracting. Also I am not keen on sped up video. I get why and in that case, to me, it works better if it is just slightly sped up throughout instead of real time in some parts and fast in others. I am so grateful though that you no longer use the piano music over the top. Much more agreeable experience.
Very insightful video! I like that part where the cover is glued a short bit over the front and back covers of the book, not just the direct spine only. I am also very interested in what materials you used to wrap your bricks with. I would be very grateful to know your secret in making those! 🙂 Thanks again for your efforts and for your knowledge!
I don't know what it is. It's some sort of fake leather I got given from a retiring bookbinder. It was going to get thrown away and I got given it for free. Sorry.
No way the first book binding tutorial I look for has the original henrique alvim correa artwork on the front brooo War of the Worlds is my favourite book and that's my favourite art lol
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Thanks! My wife had a book press she made for a class years ago but I don't know what's become of it. I do know where to get a long clamp and bricks though.
One can use a wood rasp to achieve the roughing up of the pages. Make sure the press block id placed no more than 2 mm from the edge of the pages.
Except I wouldn't rough up the spine for a double fan binding.
You might be one of the most underrated individuals on youtube. Great video as always! Quick question, is there a reliable binding method for binding single sheets together?
Thanks. I think the double-fan is the best method. I don't like over-sewing.
Always a pleasure to watch. Have you ever considered making a video on an overcast sewn binding. There is very little information out there on the internet that I can find, just a few blog style tutorials. I've done a few and they are quite the experience to say the least.
I don't like overcast sewing. They look great for a while but eventually fail and then the spine edge has to be trimmed to rebind. I am going to do a video on making a 19th century English leather binding, where the first and last sections are oversewn. But it is for historical reference. I would never use it for a modern binding.
I know it was used a lot in the past, and when I was learning in the 90s it was still very common. But it does not meet modern conservation standards.
Sorry, I know not what you want to hear.
No it's totally fine, any info good or bad is better than no info at all. I thought it would be better for larger loose leaf books because I don't really trust double fan binding to hold up for something that is 4 or 5 hundred pages. @@DASBookbinding
Beautiful work!!!>< it’s really impressive ❤❤ can I ask about what printer did you use ?
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I worked in printing for more than 20 years you said the commercial books have grains running in different directions the reason for that they print them large sheets opto 10 pages front & back ( the signature ) collated and fed into perfect binding machine and come out the other end a finished book the machine I have seen produced 125 books an hour 77 meters long and could handle 20 signatures
absolutely great video! i was going to make a paperback myself in a couple of days actually!
In your opinion, would it be a good idea to add some endpapers to it? Or would that compromise its structural integrity?
I don't think it would hurt. It might open too freely and crease the covering material on the spine at the edges. Give it a go and let me know what you find?
Do you have a video on binding a paperback with signatures?
I see you have the Epson WF-7840. I have the Epson WF-2760 which is almost the same except not wide format. I’ve been struggling to get printed text as crisp as a manufactured book. I’m not sure if this could be an issue with my printer, ink, paper, print settings, etc… and I wanted to ask if you also find this to be the case. Is your home printed text lacking in crispness/resolution? Tangentially do you use an ink refill system or official Epson cartridges (I’m debating buying an Ecotank ET-M1170 for the cheap page printing). Thank you for all your videos DAS.
I use the expensive Epson cartridges. It's crisp enough. Not as crisp as a high quality laser printer. But good enough.
What did you use for the cover? 7:13 and 8:28 Sorry if you said in the video but I didn't understand.
I would like to ask you about the EVA, I live in Europe and found Evacon-R, do you know it or could you recommend an EVA reference or brand name( maybe supplied by Schmedt)? Thank you so much for the knowledge you share.
Evacon-R is great. I would stick (ha!) with that. If I had access to it I would use Planatol BB for most of my work. I have used it in the past and found it good to work with and I like its flexibility.
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Whenever I've printed on glossy cardstock for a cover, the color and paper always seem to tear apart where the creases are. How did you get yours to stay in tact at the creases?
Maybe luck? It’s a semi gloss and not too heavy. About 110gsm
what is the best way to print a long document into a form for this style bookbinding? Not a book already printed, but a word document or pdf into a printable form that will accept this technique?
Maybe I'm missing something, but I just hit print and double sided. Nothing more to it.
@@DASBookbinding If you wanted to print a word document into signatures, is there a software to do this? I want to make my own books from things that are not formatted to be folded.
@@bgh8904in one of his previous videos he talks about bookletcreator for creating pdf in signatures. It is $20 for a lifetime license key. I’ve used it several times and it works great… make a document like normal, then convert to pdf and put in booklet creator software. It will give you another pdf of it in a booklet. It takes a little bit of trial and error, but not too bad. You can choose how many pages you want per signature and select duplex printing. If you have any questions I can try to help 😊
@@bgh8904I’m currently making a book of two Shakespeare plays using this software and it worked great
What was the binding cardstock that you used to glue to the cover? Where did you get that from?
It's 300gsm (or 10pt) card stock. The specific one I use is Bristol Board. I get it from a wholesaler, which won't help you. Here is a link to a "heritage" version of what I use from Talas in the US
www.talasonline.com/Heritage-Archival-Bristol-Board?quantity=5&thickness=14
Any 300gsm (10pt) acid free card stock will be fine.
Thanks. Where can I buy Polyurethane Reactive glue?
It's a commercial glue. You would need to get it from an industrial adhesive supplier. Not something I use. Sorry.
Thank you so much for the masterful video. Is it possible to use hot glue (from a hot glue gun) for the spine?
No. I wish I could explain why - but it's really an in-depth discussion - not a comments thing. Machines use it. But we're not machines. For hand bookbinding it's a terrible idea. And why would you? PVA is a great and easy to use adhesive.
@@DASBookbinding Thanks! I am so relieved...hot glue sets so quickly and its texture is so inconsistent (temperature dependent) that I imagine it would be a nightmare to use for hands-on work on the spine. I was afraid to hear that it could have some advantages...!
You MUST clamp both ends of you covered bricks. Look at your video, you will see the top of the bricks don’t close in as does the the end where the clamp has been placed.
My clamp has enough reach that it is almost at the centre of the book. If your clamp doesn't have much reach then yes. Maybe a trick of the camera that it doesn't look even.
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at least over here, wood glue is just straight pva, i guess that is not the case where you live?
I think you will find there is no "straight PVA". The level of polymerisation is different for different application which affects dry flexibility and there is always additives.
@@DASBookbinding fair enough, but i am pretty sure, it is as straight of a PVA glue as i can get here. the brand "Ponal" is that big, that its name basically is synonymous with "wood glue". at the same time, it is the only brand here that i know from the top of my head, that provided PVA glue, just as i said, woo glue and PVA are basically the same thing here.
it consists only of polyvinyl acetate and ethylene-vinyl acetate.
i did not know, that there is wood glue made from other ingredients as well, thats the reason for my question.
I don't understand what you mean by 'head to tail'?
Head and tail are what bookbinders call the top and bottom edges of a book. I'll be doing a video on bookbinding terminology soon.
Hello 👋..how many books per hour can you bind manually please?
It depends on the size of the books, and your error-rate.
Personally speaking, a book is a multiday process. This one might be a bit faster, since there's no sewing involved, so you could potentially have as many books going as you have clamps and bricks. On tumblr, there's a kind of event called Binderary, where you bind a book a day for every day of February. I know one person who did two books a day, but they were completely wiped by the end of it.
B&N has a book-printing service for $5 - $10 a copy, plus shipping. There is no minimum on the order.
Only problem is that you won't get to control the paper used.
The title of the video has a typo, or a grammar error, or a spelling error, 'you' should be 'your'.
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It was fixed...
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Or even OOPS .
Thanks! My wife had a book press she made for a class years ago but I don't know what's become of it. I do know where to get a long clamp and bricks though.