Coming Home (But Not to You) + Someplace New Physical Bind
i've done a few rebinds of paperbacks to hardcovers but this is my first ever full bind :')
i really love this universe written by @lesbianherald and i'm so delighted to have a forever copy! i keep coming back to it, so having it on paper will make it much easier to tab out my favourite parts when i need them.
there's definitely mistakes, especially with the cover (pls don't ask about the back cover it's none of my business). i hit a point where i chose done over good because otherwise this would have taken me 6 months. there is no prize to perfection etc.
Coming Home clocks in at around 360 pages and Someplace New is about 60. i included the playlists for both since i'm a sucker for 'bonus content'. in paper, that means 107 sheets of a4 split into 14 signatures of 7-8 pages.
some retrospectives and the guides i followed below:
what went well:
the actual process of folding signatures and sewing the binding was my favourite part. basically all the work that didn't involve fighting technology lmao
i struggled sourcing a4 short grain but i'm really happy i used it! it's such a floppy, soft book and it sits open on it's own
i hated the cover design in canva but on the book it looks sick as hell. very trust the process kind of deal
what didn't go well:
i'll never learn my lesson about text and heat transfer vinyl. this is where i almost lost my mind
speaking of htv, i really screwed up every step of the case creation. my boards are a little short, i wasted a load of book cloth, and i used to much glue for the endpapers that it seeped through a little. not enough to do major damage to the textblock, but the first and last 20 pages are a little wavy
Resources:
How To Typeset in Google Docs - i followed about 3 different tutorials for doing it in word before finding this video. very easy to follow and she shows how to impose to signatures afterwards
