DIY bookmaking and bookbinding seem to be taking off as a craft & hobby. It’s not hard at all to find tutorials and guides online for how to make your own moleskins, notebooks, zines, journals and book binding tips too.

Here’s a bunch of info you might like to check out from my collection of bookmarks:

• Brian Sawyer: Bookbinding
  *This project is a longer version of an article that appears in Make magazine. Also see the flickr page.
• Do-It-Yourself Book Press
  *Yowza, plenty of details and instruction here
• Learn how to bind a hardback book
  *Gorgeous pdf files to download illustrating full instructions. The page does ask for an email address to join them, but it’s not necessary if you don’t want to.
• Make Your Own Moleskine-Like-Notebook
• From prints into journals
  *If you don’t mind getting glue on your fingers and you’ve got a couple of prints and a bunch of papers to spare, you could try making your very own photo journal!
• Fun and Easy How to Guide to Binding Your Own Paperback Books At Home…FAST
  *A quick and dirty book binding technique you can use to turn your ebooks into a real book with about 5 minutes worth of effort.
• Bind It Fast
  *Make or repair books with this easy technique
• Book Assembly Photo-Journal
• Moleskine Reloaded …or, How to Rebind a Moleskine Notebook
• Make your own Pocketmods
• Homemade City Notebook
• DIY Bookbinding - download from University of British Columbia (pdf)
• How To Make A Moleskin Knockoff - Download (pdf)
• How to Make a Simple Hardcover Book
• Stamphenge MiniBook Tutorial page
• Bookbinding 101, A Quick Introduction, and Bookbinding 101: Your First Book
• How to recycle office paper into blank books
• How to make a zine
• Making A Casebound Book

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