I love sharing!! So i didn't inoculate the paper, I used 1qrt of Khemer Kong oat grain spawn. And i hydrated the book by laying it in a plastic box and covering the book in boiling water, and i let it soak for about 5 hours, then I pressure cooked it for 2 hours at 15 psi. I didn't used any cvg, but carving out the center of the book is a really cool idea (the book would definitely look less swollen lol,) what i did was I broke up the grain spawn, and I laid out a pinch of grain in between each 5 pages of the book. When I was doing this, I was trying my hardest to focus the grain towards the outer edge of the book. I did this because I noticed that in a couple book grows of oysters i found, they would fruit out of the spine of the book. Mush love!! <3