I just stumbled here and holy hell are your book bindings gorgeous! I don’t know if it has ever been asked and I apologise if it has but how did you learn this? I’ve been meaning to learn how to book bind fics for a long time now but I just can’t find any reliable resources to guide me. (Or maybe I suck at looking for them) It’ll be so rewarding to have ones favourite fics in their hands💕
Hello! Aw thank you for your comment 💕
I haven't particularly been asked where I learned to bookbind from, but I have been asked before on my bookbinding techniques, which can be found in this post here, which goes over the resources that I have used to learn bookbinding, as well as mentioning some of the material I use while breaking down my process of bookbinding. I would highly suggest checking that post out as you will find various bookbinding resources, and as well you should check out the Renegade Bindery Discord, which is a community of fanfiction bookbinders that have plenty of resources and are a wonderful to be involved with!
However, if I don't go into details of different places I've learned from, I would say where I learned the most from for the physical bookbinding part would be the book I own, Hand Bookbinding: a Manual of Instruction, and for formatting and printing it would be How to Make a Book by ArmouredSuperHeavy (the founder of renegade).
And yes! It is most definitely extremely rewarding to be able to hold in your hands a beautiful physical copy of a fanfic you love, especially when you intimately know the creative process of binding the book together. It's a compounded creative process made of love (and perhaps horniness in some of these cases, haha) by both you, the fanfic author and the authors of the work that the fanfic was based upon, and I think that's very beautiful, the way that creation of art can inspire others to create their own art. Anyhow, I hope this is able to answer your question, and good luck learning bookbinding! If you have any more questions, feel free to ask :)
