Using your box cutter or scissors, start scratching out a small divot along the line you just drew on the pages. This notch cutout will help you see where your fold line will start. Complete the same notch cutout on both top and bottom of the book. Make sure this line is equal distance from the spine on both sides.
Make sure your notches are visible on every single page. You will need it as you fold! For your printed template, we need to create a folding edge to follow.
On the long edge of your sheet bottom of your word create a 1 cm fold on your printed template. Do this to all sheets of your printout. Create a small 1cm fold along the bottom edge of your printed template. Open up your book into the first pages or so and place the folded edge of the printed template along the left side of the book which should be the bottom of the book. Where the folded line on the template should sit in the book. Open your book to page 1.
Sometimes you may have a number of blank and introduction pages in the book before you get to the first page. Starting with the left side of the page, take the corner and fold from the left notch cutout to where the letter begins. Crease the fold well. Repeat on the right side from notch to letter. Once both sides have been folded, flip the page over. Always make sure your folds match up to the notch in your book.
Repeat the folding process from left to right by moving your template sheet up one line as you fold the next page. Make sure the page number of the book is always matched up with the line number on your template.
As you fold, you will have to continually adjust the template by moving it below another stack of pages. Keep the folded edge of your template tight on every page. Just fold over or rip off the section you have already folded leave a little bit of a margin so you have something to insert back in the book to keep folding.
Keep following your template by matching page numbers and lines as your fold. Now what to do? Starting on the left side, fold both corners of the page to match up with the first part of the letter. Ignore the second part of the letter. Flip page over. Now on the next page, fold the corners of the page for the second part of the letter. Ignore the first part of the letter. Flip over and then fold the second part of the letter on the next page.
Continue going back and forth. Continue alternating back and forth until your template goes back to a single folding part again. If your word ends up in three sections, follow the same premise of folding one part of the letter at a time until you complete the section. This is why it is important to choose fonts that limit the number of interruptions as mentioned above.
Use elastics to hold your completed pages away from the pages you are still working on. It also helps to use heavy books or weights on hand to stack on top of the finished pages. Are you ready to get folding? I am a "reader" in every sense of the word - I devoured them as child, I have a PhD in linguistics, I was a reading teacher for 7 years, I'm a full-time copywriter, I have a kid's book "in the works" and I revere authors.
However, there are mountains of old books out there that will never be read again. It's a truth. Ask your local library about the life-cycle of its books - do not be surprised if you're told that many are, ultimately, sent to a landfill. Because those that are bound in hard covers especially fabric ones cannot be recycled. There are also issues with antique binding methods the glue, the thread etc.
Books end up as garbage. Besides the waste issue, I also want to point out that vintage or antique status doesn't exonerate poorly written, poorly researched, offensive, racist, sexist, outdated material. But now it's pulp on beautifully yellowed paper wrapped in a lovely hardback cover that cannot be recycled.
How great then that we can still celebrate the artifact that is "the book". With information so easily accessible in other forms, I think books are coming to be valued for something else They have a life of their own. Finally, I point you to Guy Laramee's Carved Book Landscapes and ask: do we toss mountains of completely useless encyclopedias into landfills or turn them into art?
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