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[Tutorial] transforming study material into real book

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It's a video on how I transformed notes I got from Wikipedia into a sort of book that I can make notes in and study anywhere.

Step by step:
1. Prepare the inside of the book page by page as will be in final. Number of pages according to this tutorial must be divisible by 8.

2. Generate pdf file using virtual pdf printer, with two pages on page, sorting the pages to fit into the spreads.
each line means one spread, 8 pages on 2 papers, if you need longer, you can generate as long list as you need in excell or other tables editor
8,1,2,7,6,3,4,5,
16,9,10,15,14,11,12,13,
24,17,18,23,22,19,20,21,
32,25,26,31,30,27,28,29,
40,33,34,39,38,35,36,37,
48,41,42,47,46,43,44,45,
56,49,50,55,54,51,52,53,
64,57,58,63,62,59,60,61,
72,65,66,71,70,67,68,69,
80,73,74,79,78,75,76,77,
88,81,82,87,86,83,84,85,
96,89,90,95,94,91,92,93
...

3. Print with both-sided print (make sure that no side of paper is printed upside down)

4. Bent the paper spreads, each spread is 2 papers

5. Sew and make a cover
 

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"Art is Creativity Filtered Through Craft!" :cool:
Beautiful quote.

I decided to level up so now I gained some more professional book binding materials and almost ripped the paper with the threat. It behaves very different from threat I use for cosplay. But overall it's not worse at least.
 

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Many moons ago, I downloaded an app for printing out book signatures (each section in a sewn book is called a signature) but it seems someone has produced an online app for it now!
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Many moons ago, I downloaded an app for printing out book signatures (each section in a sewn book is called a signature) but it seems someone has produced an online app for it now!
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Nice to see that. I use Excell table for the page numbers sorting and pdf printer to generate them.
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Actually, solving how to sort pages into signatures was the greatest problem in the entire book making process.
 
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