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Got a bit of a different bookbinding post today. @renegadeguild got an ask from a new binder saying they were intimidated by everyone's gorgeous binds (me too, actually, some of you guys are scary good), and so they've asked people to share their first binds. And I realized I'd never even taken photos of my first one, so here it is, warts and all:
This is E.M. Forster's The Machine Stops, a public domain scifi short story that you can read for free at the link. The first reason I chose it was that it's an interesting story, and I'd bought a print-on-demand copy a few years previously that was just terrible. Baffling cover choices, basic errors in the typeset (like quotes that face the wrong way), weird size that didn't fit on my shelf; just not a good product. I couldn't do it with more indifference than the PoD people. The second reason was that I was too intimidated by the thought of asking a fic writer if I could bind their story and then producing something with a thousand sloppy beginner mistakes, and then they'd want to see photos and I'd have to show them this and it would have been mortifying, but Forster has been dead since 1970 so I could not disappoint him. It was very freeing. I bound it in 2021 as an experiment, to see if I liked this hobby enough to stick to it. The cover is green cardstock and faux leather scrapbook paper that I bought at... probably Hobby Lobby. I added the title later, as a practice project when I first got my Cricut; for the first two years of its existence it had a blank cover.
There are more photos under the cut!
In this photo we can see:
--Too much glue when attaching the leather-print paper, so it oozed out onto the cover.
--Cricut font too thin and too much heat/too long of a press, so the letters have gaps and the glue also oozed out here. It's a continuing theme with this bind.
--I tried to use a bone folder to give it a sharper hinge crease and accidentally pressed too hard and tore a hole in the paper; you can see this in the little white vertical line near the top of the hinge
The fore edge is not square. I actually don't remember why this happened. I may have eyeballed the board position when I made the case, or the paper may have slipped while the glue was wet, or I cut it crooked and didn't notice till later. Either way it's bad enough that the book doesn't stand on its own. There was a crooked man/who walked a crooked mile/and found a crooked sixpence/against a crooked stile./He bought a crooked cat/which caught a crooked mouse/and they all loved together in a little crooked house, and I bet they read this little crooked book from their little crooked library.
Top view, you can see that the case is too big and the text block doesn't sit straight in it. It has no endbands or bookmark, and it's hard to see in this photo but there's glue on the top of it, at the spine. This still happens to me but I know how to trim books now so this bit gets cut off. You can also see that the scrapbook paper has some cracks where its white core is visible. This is why I do cloth or actual faux leather on the spines now. Endpaper shows uneven trim (did I not use a ruler for this??), too much glue causing major seepage, and it doesn't sit evenly in the case. I'm not sure if this is because of the case itself being crooked, a badly-trimmed endpaper, or if the text block is also crooked. Or it may be a combination of all these factors. Unclear.
Typeset photos! Here we see:
--Title page has a page number on it. This is a pet peeve of mine and I fixed it after this book.
--There is no half title, summary, or metadata. All my later binds have these things.
--It's typeset in Times New Roman. Unlike many I don't actually hate this font but reading it reminds me of being in high school so this is the only book I used it for. Baskerville is my beloved now. The font is also much bigger than it should be. It's not huge but it's like a large print book so it feels weird for me to read it.
--Lol what are margins
--Lol what are page headers
--Actually I think I left the headers out so it wouldn't have a header on the first page of each chapter, because I knew about page breaks but not section breaks at this time.
--It's on regular-ass lightweight printer paper. There's nothing wrong with this but I switched to heavier weight paper shortly after to help with bleed-through and the light stuff feels so flimsy now.
--I didn't understand how Word's book fold worked at this time, so when I had to set the sheets per booklet and it had an option for 4, I chose that thinking it would give me 4 sheets of paper (16 numbered pages) per sig. It did not do this. It gave me 4 numbered pages per sig. So every signature is 1 sheet of paper. Every page is its own signature. I am still mad about this but it sure drove home how the setting works and also how to make kettle stitches since you make one after every sig. A book of 48 pages has 12 signatures which is just ludicrous.
--There's no photo of this but it has a piece of printer paper on the spine because I didn't have mull. I did use PVA though. Lots and lots of PVA.
--It's stitched with regular sewing thread, which means it doesn't have much swell for a book with that many sigs, but it's less sturdy and more likely to tear the paper.
And that's that! It probably sounds a bit like I was tearing it to shreds but I actually love this book quite a lot. I learned so many things that I applied to my next binds, it was an invaluable experience. It let me fall in love with the hobby so I could make the awesome things I make now. I've got those all posted on my main blog under the tag #snek makes books, or you can see them all on my side blog @papersnakepress. For a first book it's functional and readable, and still better than the PoD copy I had before. I've been thinking of doing a rebind as a sort of progress gauge, actually. Maybe next year.
#bookbinding#snek makes books#the machine stops#it's not winning any beauty contests#or technical skill contests either#but it's mine and i love it#first bind
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I understand people that are like “the colors of the nonbinary flag are so obnoxious” and like I get it but ALSO I am obnoxious which is why I love it I want the garish color combinations I want the bright and loud and weird
It’s not even a “oh my gender is weird so I want my flag to represent that” it’s “I’m also loud and garish so this fits”
#combat skirt out#also I like purple so#I use the agender flag when I can because you hardly ever see it#but when it comes to the nb flag I'm like heck yeah it's obnoxious I love it#tho obviously I get that that isn't for everyone no disrespect#but it's mine and I love it
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staff: our april fools joke this year is a silly feature that doesn't really do anything but give you a button to boop other users! they have to opt-in first though :)
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i think we should remind musicians they can absolutely make up little stories for their songs btw. it doesn’t have to be about them at all. you can invent a guy and put him in situations to music. time honoured tradition in fact.
#sorry im bored of the same tags on this lmao#sometimes i think the confessional style loses impact because everything has to be excavated from the depths of the soul#and somehow. confessional writing seems to be going with the most disaffected bland sound possible. odd.#i love deeply personal songs! i love when songs sound like they mean something to the artist!#something something wider issue of mining trauma and being performatively vulnerable for quote unquote content#idk i don’t have the actual knowledge to write about this well there’s just something not landing for me recently#mine
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God sending his silliest soldier:
#random#good gif#espurr#I just love the walk so much#it just screams ‘step aside bitches this ass is mine’#this kitty has murder in their eyes#powerful
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#feelings#love#lovers#i love you#couple#couples#couple cuddling#couple goals#relationship#relationship goals#romantizing life#romantic couple#romantic love#romantic#romance#cuddles#affectionate cuddling#affection#hugs#hugs and cuddles#deep feelings#aesthetic#photography#artists on tumblr#be mine#could be us#amor#passion#touch#obsessive love
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you will regret this for the rest of your life
#iwtv#interview with the vampire#vampterview#iwtv spoilers#louis de pointe du lac#lestat de lioncourt#claudia eparvier#claudia de pointe du lac#iwtv claudia#mine#art#*24#this is probably one of my favs in a while.i'd love to do more stuff like this (and do more abstract stuff) but i dont think i'm good at it#anyway. someone put a gun to my head so i'll do more refs for artfight
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#intimacy#intimate#love#couple#relationship#relationship goals#romantic#couple goals#cuddles#k!nk#hand k1nk#k1nk#me and who#me and him#me and you#roleplay#wattpad#fanfic#when us#us#could be us#i am yours#be mine#thinking about you#affectionate cuddling#extreme cuddling#cute couple#cuddling#couple cuddling#cuddling and touching
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seeing reddit refugees repeatedly hit their post limits and comment their thoughts on every reblog is kind of refreshing. site migration be damned these guys know how to blog
#reddit blackout#it’s great#i love the excitement!! it seems like everyone is enjoying tumblr so far#reminds me of 2010 when people reblogged everything that hit their dashs#mine
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adrien in my outfit from a few days ago✨ feat. my claws out converse
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#ml#miraculous#miraculous ladybug#my art#adrien agreste#chat noir#marinette dupain cheng#YAAAAY I DREW A PICTURE OF ADRIEN AGRESTE#and i haven’t even finished my homework for tomorrow. wow it feels good to be back#my claws out converse are very real and special to me.#also while i was drawing this i was just realizing that this outfit was not THAT weird of a thing for adrien to wear#and it made me wonder if i need to assess some things about how i choose my wardrobe#adrien and marinette are going to an art festival in these outfits because that is where i went in mine#anyway peace and love<3 this was so fun to draw i need to actually draw again
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colin "my wife" bridgerton almost went off
#HE WAS ABOUT TO POUNCE#a wife man through and through#bridgerton#bridgertonedit#polin#polinedit#dailybridgerton#bridgertonblr#tvedit#televisiongifs#*mine#it takes colin a split second's pause to get him to defend his wife and i love that about him
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#YES i will scribble butch over every meme AND????#fight me about it 🙄🙄🙄#love a butch thats goofy and affectionate 🥰🥰#butches i love u#WITH MY WHOLE HEART#mine#butchfemme#butch appreciation#femme4butch#butch bait#brat4butch#lesbian
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"That is an amazing D&D choice." (x)
#critical role#tlovm#the legend of vox machina#critteredit#criticalroleedit#tlovmedit#mine#*my gifs#*my tlovm#*my critical role gifs#tlovm spoilers#cr#c1 spoilers#percy x vex#percival de rolo#percival fredrickstein von musel klossowski de rolo iii#vex'ahlia#perc'ahlia#i love them they're so special to me#laura bailey the genius you are#there's so much more i wanna gif from these three episodes because !!!!! but i also need to sleep lmao
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nanami protecting the kids
#jjkedit#jujutsu kaisen#nanami kento#jjk#mine#e:gifs#oh i love him with a passion :(#WHY CANT ALL MEN BE LIKE HIM!!!!#usertorichi#usergokalp#usergojoana#userokkottsus
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DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: HONOR AMONG THIEVES 2023, dir. Jonathan Goldstein & John Francis Dale
#dndhatedit#dndedit#filmedit#fantasyedit#dungeons and dragons honor among thieves#dnd honor among thieves#request#mine#*#i love how weird they look in comparison to jarnathan and the dragonborns#funky practical effects > cgi
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Costume appreciation series: Van Helsing (2004) dir Stephen Sommers
Costume Design by Gabriella Pescucci and Carlo Poggioli
#van helsing#van helsing 2004#filmedit#perioddramaedit#filmgifs#moviegifs#dailyflicks#perioddramasource#halloween#costumeedit#horroredit#classichorrorblog#costumegifs#junkfooddaily#userrobin#usersugar#userhayf#00s#*#mine: cas#hugh jackman#kate beckinsale#gabriella pescucci i love you#yeah tried a new approach in this one with more than one gifs for the same costume#idk i feel it works what do you guys think
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