Saturday, March 25, 2006

Print and Bind Your Own Paperback Books

Brad at Achieve-IT! has a great Fun and Easy How To Guide to Binding Your Own Paperback Books at Home -- FAST! I've been doing this for a few years and it really is a lot easier than you think. I use a binder rig too, but mine uses clamps instead of bolts and wing-nuts, and it took me about 10 minutes and $5 to make.

I also use a program called ClickBook that helps you save paper by printing more than one page per sheet of paper. This can be tricky to do because the pages aren't printed in the normal order (hard to explain but true), but ClickBook takes care of all that for you.

Like Brad says, if you read a lot of ebooks but don't like reading them on the screen, you really ought to give this a shot. It's great once you get the hang of it.