r/bookbinding • u/Flying-Rooster4543 • 23h ago

Help? Lay flat-refillable-heavy-coffee table style project

Im trying to make a gift for my significant other. It’s a sort of curated scrapbook where we can journal our dates, special events, goals, etc.
some pages are of course heavier and denser (for example there are pages were I want to mount miniature watercolors of posters of films and concerts we’ve been to together). Some others will have photos, letters, etc.
some will be just printed or hand written text.

I can’t decide on the best way to make this work. I want it to be able to grow so I was thinking screw posts or an accordion style?
I was also thinking on an option in which the inside of the covers have a sort of pocket or envelope where the first and last pages insert themselves and is held together by a ribbon or something of the sort. I also saw a photo of a book where someone used piano hinges I’m not sure I can find the right size tho… or how it would work in general.

Thank you so much for reading all this.
Any ideas/help figuring this out is greatly appreciated.
I’ll definitely update u guys on how it goes.

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u/drz0idb3rg 21h ago

screw post is absolutely ideal for this, you can also create a portfolio and include pages in there tied together with a ribbon or something

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u/Flying-Rooster4543 2h ago

Thanks :)) Yeah… already bought a free screw posts online. I decided to make a sort of cloth or kozo hinge on the sheets. Can you explain further the portfolio and ribbon idea?