Post #520089 by leisure master on Fri, Mar 26, 2010 10:00 AM

Thanks everyone - I am really happy with how it came out.

I did take the book apart myself - I didn't want to leave it to someone else, but you probably could. One thing I can tell you for sure - your book is NOT going to fall apart on you any time soon. It is glued, stitched and welded together.

The following is probably standard for how books are put together, but I never took one apart before so this was new to me. Inside the book are actually a number of I guess you could call them "pamphlets" of about 10 pages each that are each glued and then stitched to the inside spine of the cover. You have to open the book real wide to find the stitching.

Once you cut the stitching you find within every 10 pages or so, you can remove all the "inside" pages of each pamphlet, but then the "cover" page of each pamphlet is what is glued to the spine - this was a bit of a pain, pulling out these pages without ripping them - it wasn't too difficult but you just have to go slow.

Then I used a paper cutter to cut the pages, since each piece of paper I pulled out actually had 4 pages on it. That wasn't so bad, but I think if I had to use scissors to cut them all it would have been a total mess since I am not steady of hand and patient of spirit.

Then I took the whole pile down to Staples and they put the spiral bind on for $4.

I'm not an alcoholic, I'm an enthusiast.

[ Edited by: leisure master 2010-03-26 10:15 ]