S. Seifert

Make Your Own Book

Have you written stories or poems?

Do you want to put them in a book?

Join others who have bound their writing

in 4 5/8” x 5 7/8” clothbound books.

FREE Directions to

Make Your Own Hardback Book!

These directions are for short and long manuscripts that do not require illustrations. Once you have written, revised, and edited your manuscript, you can make it into a book.

STEP ONE:

Materials You Will Need

Learn about which materials you will need to make your own book.

STEP TWO:

Formatting Your Manuscript

Learn how to place your words on paper so that they can be made into a book using almost any word processing program.

STEP THREE:

Printing Your Manuscript

Receive tips about printing your formatted manuscript.

STEP FOUR:

Cutting, Folding, and Collating

Learn how to make book signatures by cutting pages correctly, making sharp folds, and putting them in order.

STEP FIVE:

Making Signatures into a Text Block

Learn how to stitch and glue the signatures of your book into a complete text block.

STEP SIX:

Making a Fabric Cover

Learn how to make a hardback, cloth cover for your text block.

STEP SEVEN:

Attaching the Text Block

Learn how to attach the text block to the hardback, cloth cover.

A Fishy Book

Burning Flames Book

Yellow Twirls Book

Strawberry Book

A Book of Zebras

A Red Sporty Book

A Red Hat Book

A Spiderman Book

A Kissing Book

A Book with Clifford

A Sunflower Book

A Book of Boxers

A Bratty Book

A Yellow Flower Book

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Make Your Own Book. Copyright © 2005 by Sheila Seifert. Printed electronically in the United States of America. All rights reserved. No part of this lesson may be reproduced in any form or by electronic or mechanical means including information storage or retrieval systems without permission in writing from the author except by a review or when used for educational purposes where brief passages may be quoted.