Digital BW, The Print

I am surprised no one has suggested that you bind them yourself -- it's not 
so hard, and the end result will have a handmade feel that makes the book all 
the more special.   I have bound books in the past in several styles; if you 
can follow basic directions (if you're on this list you can follow basic 
directions) you can bind a book.   

You can bind your albums in the usual boring book binding.   Or you can be 
creative and use a more exotic (to us) binding.   The Japanese have a tradition 
of binding in forms that work really well for scrapbook formats, and that are 
much easier for an amateur to finish.   There are about a jillion Internet 
resources and books on the subject.   Here is one web address that I just pulled 
off of Google:

http://staffcentral.brighton.ac.uk/graeme/Bookbinding%20web%20site/bookart/ba_
sewn.html

For a book, just go to Amazon and search for "bookbinding" and browse the 
results.   

People will gasp in awe when you give them one of these, and realize you did 
it yourself -- it's not hard, but it is such a lost art that it makes a big 
impact.

Sanders McNew
www.mcnew.net


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