Sewing the Sections to the Cover 7. Trimming the Pages 8. Making a Dust Jacket 9. Alternatives Other Bookbinding Resources Austria Information Switchboard for July 12, 1997. If books had been invented after the computer, they would have been considered a big breakthrough.
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They boot instantly. They run on very low power at a very low cost. Abstract Bookbinding, the art of sewing pages into a cover to make a book, can serve many purposes. This tutorial introduction is aimed primarily at those who wish to preserve the content of old pulp paperbacks by photocopying them onto archival paper and then binding the results using an archival binding technique, the long-stitch. Most of this tutirial is equally applicable to binding materials from other sources.