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Hello! My name is Lenrra, also known as Shinymist and now Luminmist, and welcome to my bookbinding side blog!

I am part of the Renegade Bookbinding Guild and follow the Code of Conduct. I do not take commissions at this time, except from those I personally know. If you are an author whose fic I have bound, and I have not offered an author copy or you declined to receive one, you are always welcome to reach out and ask for one! Authors are also always welcome to request the typesets I have made of their work. Fandom is a gift economy, and this is my way of giving back.

Rambles will be tagged as # Lenrra Posts, and finished projects will be tagged as # Lenrra’s Bookbinding.

Thanks for joining me on this journey!

#lenrra posts #lenrra’s bookbinding

kawuli

random PSA, I know a lot of people use duckduckgo as a Google alternative search engine, but it always kind of annoyed me when I was using it because it felt like No Name Brand Google

I have switched to using Startpage.com and vastly prefer it. for one thing, instead of displaying an "AI summary" at the top of the search results (unless you turn it off, yes I know), it displays the first paragraph of the Wikipedia article, with link, whenever it finds one that's relevant.

also a waaayyyyy better sense of design than duckduckgo

also private, European based, least annoying search I've used lately (RIP old "don't be evil" Google)

yomikoreadsbooks

Keeping a list of Google alternatives just in case…

saxifraga-x-urbium

i have one of those, scraped from multiple different rec posts:

Search Engines

Infinity Search is an alternative search engine with a special focus on privacy

DuckDuckGo is a popular search engine for those who value their privacy and are put off by the thought of their every query being tracked and logged. Uses bangs, ![site] for in-page search (sells your data to microsoft and draws from fucking bing)

WolframAlpha is a privately owned search engine that allows you to “compute expert-level answers using Wolfram’s breakthrough algorithms, knowledgebase, and AI technology.” A data search engine.

Boardreader is a search engine for forums and message boards. It allows you to search forums and then filter down results by date and language.

Based in France, Qwant is a privacy-based search engine that won’t record your searches or use your personal details for advertising. Uses “&” as a bang search.

Another privacy-based search engine is Search Encrypt, which uses local encryption to ensure that users’ identifiable information cannot be tracked. Metasearch across multiple engines.

Offering unbiased results from several sources, SearX is a metasearch engine that aims to present a free, decentralized view of the internet. Can be self-hosted.

Gibiru’s tagline is “Unfiltered private search” and that’s exactly what it offers. Requires AnonymoX Firefox add-on for privacy.

Disconnect allows you to conduct anonymous searches through a search engine of your choice.

Swisscows provides fully encrypted searches to protect your privacy and security. Built-in violence/porn filter cannot be overridden.

MetaGer offers “Privacy Protected Search & Find” through its anonymised search. A plugin will allow it to be made a default.

Gigablast is a private search engine that indexes millions of websites and servers real-time information without tracking your data, keeping you hidden from marketers and spammers. Variety of filtration and refinement options for searching.

Oscobo is a search engine that protects your privacy while you search the web. By not using any third-party tools or scripts, your data is protected from hacking and misuse. Has a Chrome extension to allow use in toolbar.

https://search.marginalia.nu/ an independent DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and attempts to show you sites you perhaps weren't aware of in favor of the sort of sites you probably already knew existed. Use old-school searching rather than query-based for the best results.

https://www.mojeek.com/

https://wiby.me/ - It’s goal is to index as many personalized websites as possible, and NOT commercial sites.

https://4get.ca/ it works a lot like SearX, but honestly better. It doesn’t have its own index, but pulls from many others. I think it’s the best for research, since it allows you to search for answers from different indexes, is easy to configure, add free, and avoids censorship as much as it can.

https://www.searchenginemap.com/ for more on how search engines relate to each other.

https://yep.com/ is a crawler

https://www.etools.ch/ retrieves from Google, Mojeek, Bing, and Yandex, like Searx

https://www.dogpile.com/

https://searxng.org/ (next gen Searx)

https://luxxle.com/ - possibly conservative?

https://presearch.com/ - good for academic?

https://kagi.com/smallweb - free/randomised Kagi.

Other Searchers

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free.https://cosine.club/ is an electronic music similarity search engine

#reference

megacarapa

ok so this is another long shot but a few years ago there was a twitter post (in japanese i think?) that had measurememts for how to make this book stand thing out of cardboard that you could use to double up books and use up more space on shelves

back then i made a bunch of these but by now i lost the pic and dont know how to find the original post anymore

if it comes down to it i can just take one apart and get the measurements from there but i would be very grateful if anyone happens to have the original post or something similar??

megacarapa

don't mind how long it's been since i made this post, anyway i realized that i don't even need to take one apart to get the measurements when i can literally just unfold it and refold it /FACEPALM

so anyway here is the diagram for anyone else who is interested!!

this requires pretty big carboard pieces, if you have a really big box or something you can make it from one piece, but if you don't, you can also just make each of the pieces individually and then tape them together

and then in the end you put it together like this!!

and then when you make a bunch you can put them all next to each other and stack your books like crazy

EVERYONE START GETTING MORE USE OUT OF YOUR SPACE NOW!!!!

#reference

Midnight Strangers by Mitos (@seriouslycalamitous)

It’s finally done!!! This is officially the thickest book I’ve bound to date, coming in at 828 pages (796 of the fic itself). The Oxford hollow + bradel combination worked so well to support the textblock’s weight, and the foiled faux leather is super pretty, so I’m really happy with how everything turned out! I’ve learned a lot over the course of binding this that I will absolutely be using for my next thick bind.

Thanks to Mitos for writing such an amazing fic!

More pictures under the cut :)

#lenrra’s bookbinding #lenrra posts #fanfic binding #fanbinding #bookbinding #renegade bindery #renegade bookbinding guild #midnight strangers #scarian

celestial-sphere-press

hi! I wanted to ask about the Japanese silk thread you use – I'm going to Japan soon and wanted to pick some up in person, do you know of any stores in Tokyo that would sell some and if so, any brands you recommend? thanks so much!

Hi!! There are a bunch of stores where you can get this type of silk thread. It will usually be in the hand-sewing section, and sold on little cards.

If you're heading to Nippori Fabric district (great also for second hand kimono/haori/hakama shopping), you should also find some sewing shops that carry it there.

If not, most sewing supply chains will carry it. The two big ones are Okadaya (there is one outside Shinjuku station, but there are a lot in general) or a Yuzawaya.

If you find a more independent sewing crafts store, you might luck out and find some on sale (happened to me once way out in Takayama. 80m of silk for 80 yen. deal of the century. I hadn't even started sewing endbands yet, had no idea what I stumbled on but got them anyways).

As for brands, there's a whole bunch but sizing is pretty standardized so I'm usually not bothered about which one (I use KNK, Daruma, Fujix/Tire, etc interchangeably). You want to make sure the card says "100% 絹" on it. Check how many meters you get for the price and what size it is (9号 or 16号). 9 is thinner and my personal preference, but 16 will let you finish an endband faster.

(meters are noted down in the darkness on the bottom)

Once you come back and have fallen in love, you can buy a whole 171 color set on the wholesale site Nippon Chuko. They have a minimum 20,000 yen order but thr per-card pricing is the best you'll find anywhere except in the sale box of that random store in Takayama.

Best of luck to you in the endwyrm battle!

#endbands

starblightbindery

hello, may I ask what the measurements are for the holes in your punching cradle? thank you

Yes! Here is my preferred spacing for punching holes.

#bookbinding #fanbinding

renegadeguild

Binderary 2026: Week Two

If you'd like to join us for Binderary, please join our Discord Server.

All our workshops are run by members of our fanbinding community, and some of them are even on Tumblr!

Here’s the list of who’s running the week 2 workshops:

Endpages Revealed: An Undercover Exposé: @silentsunpress Simple Scribus Typesetting (With Scripts!): @notwhelmedyet Typesetting in One Click: Microsoft Word Macros 101: owl_winter Hinge Maths (And Other Bookbinding Maths): queercus Medieval Manuscripts: Past and Present: kwrites & @imaginariumpress

#binderary2026 #binderary #renegade bookbinding guild

renegadeguild

Binderary 2026: Week One

All our workshops are run by members of our fanbinding community, and some of them are even on Tumblr!

Here’s the list of who’s running the week 1 workshops:

Beginner's Primer: Bookbinding Vocabulary and Parts of the Book: @silentsunpress Workshop Safety: catz Makin' the VIP Work for You!: @simply-sithel Endbands (French Double Core): @celestial-sphere-press Designing a Book in Affinity 3 (Beginner): @kate2kat Typesetting in Microsoft Powerpoint: mahoganydoodles

#renegade bindery #binderary2026

shinymist

Misty’s Journal

Twinblood - Harvest Moon

(This post is safe for all Twinblood participants to view)

Rather than making videos to document my Twinblood POV, I’ve bound a field notebook that I’ll be writing in from the perspective of Misty. I’ll be recording notable events, locations, and of course her research into the creatures of the night. There may also be drawings, pressed plants or other items, and letters stuffed between the pages.

Each journal entry will be posted to #twinblood and #tbsmp for archiving, with #tbMisty as my personal POV tag. I will provide the text when applicable so you don’t have to read my handwriting.

For more photos and info on this book’s construction, see below the cut!

#lenrra posts #lenrra’s bookbinding

roseserpentpress

🧮✨AUTOMATIC BOOK BINDERY STATS CALCULATOR VERSION 2.0 IS OUT! ✨🧮

Did YOU wanna have an easy way to calculate stats about the books you've bound over the years? Well, look no further! Filling out the sheet with your binding details will automatically calculate many stats for you, and this new and expanded edition includes categories such as c-novels and stories split into multiple books!

🧮Some of the stats calculated include 🧮

Total # of books you've bound and per category (fanfiction, c-novels, published literature, original fiction, other) for single story books, anthologies and stories split over multiple books!

Number of unique books total and per each category!

Total # of copies!

Total # of anthologies!

Total # of words bound!

Total # of fanfics bound!

List of and total # of years you've been binding!

List of and total # of fandoms!

List of and total # of different book sizes!

And many more!

New features include some layout changes from the past edition, but if you've used past editions you can pretty much just copy paste into the new layout without issue. The old edition also still exists in the sheet of it would be preferred to be used. As always, if you notice any issues please do let me know or let me know if you have recommendations for other stats not calculated. Also if you do use it and post about your stats, please tag me! I love hearing that it's been used.

#bookbinding #fanbinding

renegadeguild

Hello! I want to learn typesetting, can you recommend me book layout lessons anywhere? Or maybe some tutorials to get started? Thank you

We're here to help!

Here is a resources master list. It includes both traditionally published books as well as digital resources that I and other Renegade members have created that walk you through the methods we have devised using various software platforms.

We frequently troubleshoot and discuss digital book design/typesetting questions and share resources on the Discord server. Come join us!

If you are specifically looking for the intel on how to lay out a book like commercially published books, you will be interested in these two resources:

Bookmaking: Design/Edit/Production Marshall Lee - W. W. Norton & Company - 2004 ISBN 0393732967

On Book Design Richard Hendel - Yale University Press - 1998 ISBN 0300075707

#typesetting #bookbinding #fanbinding

ausp-ice

Back in March, @wynlore commissioned me for book cover artwork of And If You Cannot Bring Yourself to Kill, a Xiaother fic! I had a lot of fun with this, thank you for commissioning me :D these two beans still have a fond place in my heart.

Personal Website | Discord Server

#ahhh it’s so pretty!!!#this fic means the world to me #and this art is absolutely gorgeous!#I’m so honored to get to use this cover art

And He Sang About The Stars by Hauntme_then

Bound for @PaladinUrsa

This typeset has been sitting finished for months, but I finally got around to getting cover paper and actually learning Chinese stab binding! There was a lot of trial and error and it’s not perfect, but it was a great first try and satisfying to sew. I’ll definitely be using this binding technique more in the future!

Thank you again to @dead-tribadist for writing such a beautiful fic and allowing me to bind it for my friend!

#Shinymist #lenrra posts #lenrra’s bookbinding #renegade bindery #bookbinding #fanbinding #fanfic binding #mdzs fanfiction

renegadeguild

Happy Fanfiction Writers Appreciation Day!

Renegade once again celebrated in our favorite fashion, by crafting books for fic authors we love! Thank you to all the folks out there who are writing fic! We appreciate you and all the joy, laughter, cozy times, raw emotional gutting, love, hope, chaos, and more that you have brought into our lives.