Hardcover Binding Made Easy

On the LBI Web site, you’ll find many suppliers that sell covering materials, endpapers, reinforcing materials, etc. If you still hesitate and lack the necessary know-how, a variety of books on basic bookbinding are available to introduce you to the basic tools.

The next step would be to invest in some tabletop equipment. During the most recent AIIM/On Demand show in Boston, this writer and bookbinder with more than 50 years of trade experience, was impressed at the clever gadgets developed by a company called Fastbind (www.fastbind.com).