{"id":541,"date":"2025-08-01T15:49:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T19:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bobsown.net\/?p=541"},"modified":"2025-08-01T15:49:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T19:49:14","slug":"binding-my-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bobsown.net\/?p=541","title":{"rendered":"Binding my books"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My technique is to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Separate the book into parts if the printed thickness is over about 1 inch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Separate the book into parts if the printed thickness is over about 1 inch.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I&#8217;m currently using Thick Kraft Chipboard (30pt) for covers.  In the past I used heavy report covers.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I put two coats of padding compound (that&#8217;s the stuff they use to keep a pad of paper together) on the spine.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A later coat of padding compound over cheesecloth wrapped around the spine extending 1\/2&#8243; onto the covers is added.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The spine is covered with 5&#8243; duct tape which extends onto the covers.  The original report covers had a window which showed the book title and author.  I apply a label with the title and author on the chipboard covers.  The spine label is hand printed, which doesn&#8217;t look good.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I&#8217;m experimenting with 11&#215;17&#8243; vinyl sticky labels to replace the duct tape and label.  They don&#8217;t completely cover the book because of the thickness of the book.  I haven&#8217;t decided on whether to leave a gap on front and back or just on the back. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li> They can be printed on my Epson XP-960 inkjet printer.  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ones I&#8217;ve printed in the past have stood up very well<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My technique is to: Separate the book into parts if the printed thickness is over about 1 inch. The ones I&#8217;ve printed in the past have stood up very well<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobsown.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobsown.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobsown.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobsown.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobsown.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobsown.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":542,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobsown.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions\/542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobsown.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobsown.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobsown.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}