March 22, 2006

2-inch (and smaller) books
posted by the quidnunc kid 18 years ago
  • I like tiny books!
  • Length and breadth aren't everything. Depth is also important.
  • i really like the binding on some of these. /printed matter geek
  • Original.
  • I loved the matchbookbook. They should all be like that. Anyone know of a good bookbinding how-to on the Intarwebs? I know of one to make paper, but they always start with newspaper so the pages come out gray.
  • wiki to the rescue, though not an exhaustive treatment. the teaching set here looks neat.
  • Thank you roryk - i see a nice table of contents, but no articles of said table? Maybe I'm not smart enough for wiki. Is there a pop-up version? If books had been invented after the computer, they would have been considered a big breakthrough. Books have several hundred simultaneous paper-thin, flexible displays. They boot instantly. They run on very low power at a very low cost. --Prof. Joseph M. Jacobson, MIT Media Lab, quoted in the New York Times, Apr 8, 1988, page B2.
  • Yeah but they're BORING.
  • pete, there's a mini toc at the top of the page with links to: Intro - Why? - Perfect - Japanese side stitch - Saddle stitch - Long stitch - Equipment - Materials
  • Ah. A new thing I've learned! Thanks roryk and your amazing jumping Interwebs!
  • I love well-crafted short stories.
  • /collapse
  • As these designs show, it can be varied enough not to be drudgery. Small volumes do well for people's home alters, or a child's dollhouse, that sort of thing. Not hard to learn. Haven't made as many in recent years as when I was younger -- ye find small handmade books sold now in any number of places, museums, jewelers, art galleries, new agey places, sometimes smaller bookstores or art supply stores. Even farmer's markets, once in a while. All in all, making 'em is a fairly civilized and useful activity.
  • people are silly about things.
  • Maybe it's nitpicking, but most of those aren't auctully books. Books have a bound spine and you can flip through the pages. They are not sheets of paper folded accordian style.
  • Yes they are.
  • No they're not! They're not, they're not, they're not! So there!!!!!
  • Sit down and fold your arms, both of you. I won't have this kind of bickering in the thread. Now, if you can behave, you can have crayons and color in your iddy biddy books/nottabooks.
  • Look, look! A Pecha book.
  • Somewhere in Tibet there's a bunch of pissed off monks who hate having to go allllllll the way to Cornell and deal with snobby rich frat boys just to read their scared texts which by the way are auctully folios and not books because books don't have loose pages unless it's the really old copy of Joy of Sex with a rubber band holding it together that I bought at a garage sale for fifty cents.
  • If I was threatened with frat boy rubber band treatment I'd be scared too.
  • That's very interesting, Petebest.
  • I think it is a sad commentary upon myself that I thought this link in the sidebar said "2 -inch and smaller boobs", and I eagerly clicked on it. In shame, I apologize.