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Give your keeper magazines the durability of a hardcover book.

OLDE-SCHOOL
BOOKBINDING
Pages last longer, lie flatter, and look better
inside a handsome, durable hardcover.
By Brian Sawyer

Photography by Brian Sawyer

Magazines aren’t really built to last, but here’s Divide your loose pages into consecutive 32-page
how you can turn your copy of MAKE (or any sections (signatures). Binding loose pages as
other magazine or printout) into a durable hard- joined signatures will strengthen the spine and
cover that will withstand the test of time. Your keep pages from falling out. For MAKE Vol. 01,
hardcover MAKE will also lie flat on your work- without the ads, I got 192 pages, or six groups.
bench, making it easier to follow instructions for If your total page count isn’t a multiple of 32,
other projects. you can fudge the signature sizes a bit, but each
signature must have a page count divisible by 4.

Create the Signatures Open the first group in half, such that pages 16 Peel away the existing cover, and use a utility and 17 are facing. Pair these pages and set them knife and a heavy ruler to cut all the pages out aside, doing the same for the next facing pages 1" from the spine, freeing them from the glue. ( 14 and 19) and the rest in the group. Just keep

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