Hey everyone! OP here and geez this post has truly blown up over the years. However there are some things I wish to address that people have brought to my attentions and i URGE all of you to please reblog this version of the post from here on out.
The program i use to organise the different pages in the right order is bookbinder’s collate. It costs around €10 from what I remember and is really easy to use but there are other free programs too.
I made this post when I was 17 and was yet unaware of the legality and history surrounding fanfictions. Fanfictions have had a VERY LONG battle, especially given that back in the certain Authors and creators of Original IPs would straight up sue fanfic authors for copyright reasons. Even today Fanfics are in a copyright greyzone, because you cannot make money off of them as the IP the fanfics are based on do not belong to you.
Because of this blindspot of teenage-me assumed downloading fanfics was illegal. So as many have pointed out since: Printing and Binding fanfictions is not illegal IF and ONLY IF you bind them for personal use (like in my case I bind them into physical books because I cannot look at any screen for a prolonged time due to some slight visual impairments) and do not make money from it.
However, I have since been made aware of a disturbing rise in etsy stores and even Amazon pages which SELL bound fanfictions which were more often then not, not even written by the Etsy-store-owner. THIS is in fact very much illegal and can endanger the fanfic community and everything we have fought for in the past.
Now I do not claim that this post of mine is at the root cause of this rise in etsy-fanfic-binders. This post does not have that many notifications in the grand scheme of things and has never even made its way outside of tumblr.
All that being said i still receive daily comments and tags and reblogs of this post of people saying “oh i am so gonna do this!” And “Oh I will now bind my favourite fanfics too” so i do feel like i have the moral obligation to make sure that whoever get inspired to become a bookbinder through this post, won’t use it to harm fandom culture and fanfiction as a form of art all in the pursuit of greed for money
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