Patent ID: 7648172

Claim:
A kit for manufacturing a stitch-bound printed book, comprising: a book cover ( 10 ) composed of a front ( 11 ) and a back ( 12 ) attached by a spine ( 13 ) for accepting a bookblock ( 18 ) formed from a collection of bound pages of corresponding size; a corresponding collection of pre-perforated loose unfolded single sheets ( 15 ) for making up a bookblock ( 18 ) that fits the book cover ( 10 ), the pre-perforated loose sheets ( 15 ) having printable areas and their size corresponding to a given printing format acceptable by available personal printers, the collection of sheets ( 15 ) having along and in the proximity of and spaced apart from one edge of each sheet that corresponds to the book's spine a series of binding perforations ( 16 ) for accepting a binding thread ( 31 ), the pre-perforated loose unfolded sheets ( 15 ) being already perforated prior to printing the sheets in said printable areas whereby the pre-perforated sheets are printable in said printable areas on one or both sides in a printer to constitute printed pages of the book, the printed pages being bindable to form said bookblock ( 18 ) by reconstituting the unfolded sheets as a collection with their perforations ( 16 ) aligned and by sewing thread ( 31 ) through the perforations ( 16 ); two folded-over sheets forming front and back endpapers ( 20 a , 20 b ) whose folded-over dimensions correspond to those of the single sheets, the outer face of one part of the two folded-over endpapers being attachable, one to the front and the other one to the back of the bookblock ( 18 ) formed by sewing together the collection of loose printed unfolded sheets ( 15 ), with the fold of the folded-over endpapers adjacent to the sewn edge of the bookblock, and the outer face of the other part of the two folded-over endpapers being attachable, one to the inside front face ( 11 ) and the other to the inside back face ( 12 ) of the book cover ( 10 ), for securing the bookblock ( 18 ) formed by sewing together the collection of loose printed unfolded sheets ( 15 ), to form the stitch-bound printed book; and adhesive layers ( 21 , 47 , 48 ) for securing the bookblock ( 18 ) to the front and back endpapers ( 20 a , 20 b ) and for securing the front and back endpapers ( 20 a , 20 b ) to the cover ( 10 ), these adhesive layers being protected by peel-off layers.