[Craft] Does anyone do bookbinding?

[pf3ix85fe Pandora]

After a few decades, I've finally upgraded to wanting a permanent fancy grimoire instead of just a million journals spanning those decades
I have the leather, I have the pages. I have chipboard and thread, but this begs the question: Do you prefer sewing the bindings (and therefore never be able to add pages in the future), or doing a travel journal style which allows switching out component pages at will?

Does anyone else do bookbinding and have opinions on this??

 

[Morell]

I'm hobbyist bookbinder.

Tris truly depends on your preference. I have dozen of hardcover journals, each being unique piece of art.

If it were a final text, I would definitely bind it and make a book. With journal, well, you might probably want a fat one, if you make a lot of notes. If just few notes here and there and need to remove sometimes, then impermanent is better.

 

[pf3ix85fe Pandora]

Thanks Morell!
I think the biggest concern I have is that things evolve, so permanence is kind of a scary idea for hand binding a book.
While I plan for this book to be mainly the tables and strategies and proven occult work, etc, there's something so final about doing the binding. I will explore options for being able to add or delete pages