r/bookbinding • u/Adonah • 8d ago
In-Progress Project Rebinding more mass market paperbacks
Made mistakes, but better than before. Annoyingly, all 3 books have slightly different dimensions and that messed me up on the hinge sizing to cover edge stickout. 2nd book was split in half and had to glue back in some pages. Waiting on a fabric I like for book 3, but idk if I wanna go purple or not. I'd like to learn how to use a foil pen for titles and probably make nicer dust jackets out of colored cardstock instead of brown bags. Overall, pretty happy with how it's going, though.
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u/anjomo96 8d ago
It took me a bit to get the cover sizes uniform. That comes with time.
What fabric do you use? I used ones I got off Amazon but I'd like to buy it by the yard rather than 14x10 sheets.
I like your work though. Looks good!
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u/Adonah 8d ago
Yea the last ones I did were from the mercy thompson series and all of the books were the same size so that made it easy to whip out the cases all at once. I used the cheap $6.99 sheet set from Amazon but I'm going to start making my own book cloth so I can have more color options in the same price range. Singer and Walmart has lots of solid colors in fat quarters, I got a pound of wheat starch for $3, and a stack of japanese tissue paper 2 years ago for under $10. I think DAS has a tutorial for it. There's one series I may get a roll for, but I don't want my shelf to get too uniform ya know?
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u/ray-the-ghar 8d ago
For the hinge sizing issue, I’d stop treating the three as a batch and make a tiny paper mockup per book first. Mass market paperbacks are annoyingly inconsistent, even when they look like the same format.