Creative Corner

@dotdedo
That subspecies actually sounds really cool! I wish you luck in finishing it!

@Petall
I can work on getting some pictures together today, but none of them are really that impressive yet. One, at least, was probably sturdier as a paperback than it is now...

Uh... Yeah... So I'm rewriting the NaNo draft of it (one of my friends just referred to it as 'draft zero' and that seems fairly appropriate) into a proper first draft that I can work on, show to people, get feedback on, etc. But I'm not very far through that yet.

@Petall
Oh, of course it is. And good fun, too. Okay. Let's see here... You can scroll through some pics here.
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Thanks. I think I'm gonna need it. Where abouts are you in the process of getting yours together?

@Petall
The hardest part seems to be getting everything measured and cut precisely. If things aren't squared up well or (can't tell if this is failure on my part or my equipment since I'm working with some super hacked together stuff) possibly if your equipment isn't up to snuff, it seems like it can get a bit tricky? Understand, too, that part of my difficulty is that I'm trying to rebind paperbacks which, from everything I've been reading, is a touch more difficult than making new books. A lot of my struggles since I got some square rulers and paper cutters and things have been in trying to get the spine to withstand being a spine. That wouldn't necessarily be a problem if you were doing a sewn spine on a brand new book block. Perfect- or glue-bound books are naturally less sturdy than sewn ones. I'll dig around and see if I can't refind some of the sites I've been looking at.

Edit: I'll keep digging for everything (though I also checked a couple books and a video out of the library and read those, so...), but I did find these again.
A bookbinding tutorial - For blank books, but the concepts of putting together the cover itself and mounting the book block (pages) into the cover is pretty much the same for a blank block or a printed one.
A binder's blog - I read several of their posts when I was doing my initial research into what I needed and such. I've been meaning to go back and reread several of them now that I'm actively trying.

@Petall
Agreed. I do the same. See earlier comment about A Wrinkle in Time. That's the worst one on my shelf at the moment (or, not technically on my shelf as the case may be), but there are others that are starting to look a tad rough around the edges.

I'm going to look next at trying to straight up reglue the spines to help keep them together? Because some way or another I need to find a way to give the poor spines more strength and stability. It's the weak point still by a loooong margin.

And hey, if you do give it a shot, you'll have to share pictures. I'd love to have a binding buddy!

@Petall
Yes, absolutely. I might try to do a better job of documenting my next project, the steps I take and such like. If you want to see my adventure, just let me know.

And sure, that makes sense. I tremble in anticipation!