Bookbinding

[rhu]

So I've started to work on creating a properly bound draft of my siddur (prayer book) project. This is the one to find out what's going to go wrong. (So far, I've learned that if you have a one-bit-deep color image embedded in a PDF, Acrobat Reader 8 renders it correctly onscreen but as black and white to the printer. Ouch.)

Last night I printed and folded all the signatures (that took about two hours for a 128p codex). This morning I cut the boards and cloth for the cover and glued them together. I hope to stitch the signatures today and do the final assembly tonight, so it can dry for a day and be usable by Shabbat.

It brings back fond memories of the book-repair table in the library office at HCHS. JH was the book-repair master -- he could fix anything and I think he's the only person ever to log over 1,000 hours volunteering at the library. I never qualified to fix anything significant; mostly I did accession paperwork and worked front desk. But looking back on it, the library clique was the coolest nerd thing about high school. (I didn't realize we were a clique until just now.)

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[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Heh. I, too, was part of a library clique in high school. From 10th grade onward I volunteered in the Maimo library whenever I had a free period, and I did occasional other work during vacations. It was much fun.