Making a book

I love crafting, and so after I sent a copy of my book to beta readers, I decided to print and bind a single copy of the beta draft.

7/18/20261 min read

The first time I tried bookbinding was in 2014. I followed along with a tutorial on a YouTube channel and made a hard back book. It was a big project, time-consuming, and oh so much fun! I made a few more. I used spreadsheets to create day planners and would bind them. I even sold a couple of personalized day planners on Etsy. I would go in and add in all their special dates - birthdays, anniversaries, etc - before printing out the pages. Then I sewed them together and bound them in hardback covered with a fabric of their choice. The amount of time I put into a single one was huge, so I only made and sold a few ever. I made some as gifts for people that I loved as well. Several years later I bought a tool so that I could do spiral binding. I made more day planners and more for my family. Then I found a YouTube video about making paperback books. Eager to try that, I bought all the materials needed. I printed up a copy of a children's learn-to-read book (simple graphics and words with only short vowel sounds) that I wrote several years ago and tested it out. Then it went on a shelf in the craft room with many other oft-unused items. Well, I pulled it out the other day. I printed up a full copy of the beta version of my novel. It was so much fun to put the project together. I'm only planning to make one of this version, as it will still go through changes before it's complete, but it was a fun project.

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