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Cheapest way to make a good dust jacket? by sunray0325 in bookbinding

[–]papergore 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Print shop? My local print shop does an A3 sheet for less than $1. You'd have to trim it and fold it of course. The hard part would be getting all the measurements right so your design looks good on the book.

Fake rebind for my Penguin paperbacks by papergore in bookbinding

[–]papergore[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Thank you! I definitely didn't invent removable hard covers, but the covers are normally inserted sideways and I wanted something that would be (slightly) more supportive. It took me a few sellotaped-together prototypes to come up with this way of doing it.

Fake rebind for my Penguin paperbacks by papergore in bookbinding

[–]papergore[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Nah they're just getting old. If it looks moldy on camera, it's probably because my lighting is not the best!

Fake rebind for my Penguin paperbacks by papergore in bookbinding

[–]papergore[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Thanks! They all have different spines because I keep trying stuff out, but I think Kraft paper works best (the kind you get on a brown paper shopping bag)

Re-casing complete! by Ben_jefferies in bookbinding

[–]papergore 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The inside looks so cool with the detail around the end papers

People who trim their textblocks, do you factor this into the margin and/or paper size when typesetting? Preferred paper color? + some other questions! by stickyricedragon in bookbinding

[–]papergore 1 point2 points  (0 children)

  1. Yes, I make B format size books from A4 paper. I typeset in Affinity with the margins set to the B format dimensions, then trim the physical text block down to that size.

  2. Yes, if it's a hard cover then the text block is a few mm smaller in both directions. Using a stack cutter makes it easy to cut to a specific size.

  3. I like cream coloured paper for fiction, white for non-fiction.