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Monday Aug 19, 2013
Episode 111: Simple Up
Monday Aug 19, 2013
Monday Aug 19, 2013
This month I have been casing
in a few books in order to do two things: use up more of my pile of
bookbinding supplies and get better at attaching endpapers. In the last
few days I have cased in sic books and the first one I will talk about
here is Simple Up, a book with a secret.
Simple Up is an A5-size lined notebook
with about 200 pages. After casing in a few books I didn't have a large
enough piece of book board to make an A5 size book so I glued and
buttressed four smaller pieces together. The slight rectangular bump in
the middle of the book, underneath the yellow tag, is the buttress. The
four pieces are equal in size with two on the front and two on the back.
This managed to use up more book board. My supply dwindles!
The yellow tag and the book cloth
at the foot of the book is from another book I cased in earlier in the
week, which I will talk about in a future podcast. Both were essentially
leftovers that I think I put to practical use. And again, my pile of
supply shrinks.
Reflecting on my self-imposed intensive casing in period, I have discovered a few things. First, endpapers, while still scary, are not as scary as I once thought they were, although diligence is still required. Second, casing in gives me a sense of accomplishment when I finish a good book. Third,
practice makes for better casing in, but too much practice makes for a
tired bookbinder who ends up making easily avoidable mistakes.
The picture of the front page was taken before rubbing the wrinkles out. An avoidable mistake ~ finish the book before taking a photo.
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