A little bit after my first fanbind, I bound another great fanfic. Linger in the Sun by the wonderful etymologyplayground ( @megafaunatic on tumblr).
They wrote this fanfic in the fandom of The Untamed and it ended up being another one of my first binds.
I was still learning a lot and I was still using recycled copy paper for my binds. Though I am still learning, I am definitely using different paper by now and I am trying to be better with grain direction.
I drew the mirror on my iPad, because I wanted to have something at the beginning of the story. The first page seemed a little bare to me without at least a little picture and since a mirror is featured in the story, I figured I'd just draw one.
For the covers I used an old folder that I cut to size and the spine is just some design paper which is thicker than regular paper but definitely not as thick as the board I used for the covers.
As you can see, the glue made the first pages warp a little, because I didn't use any paper or whatever in between the cover and the body of the book, which I do now. Also, I was still cutting the edges by hand and tried to smooth them a bit by actually sanding them with sandpaper. That worked... not as well as I wanted it to.
But in the end I was satisfied, because: I made another book! :D
In 2022, I bound this fic, again, just because I could and I wanted to try out different paper. This time, I printed it on white copy paper, but still without concern for grain direction. (I didn't have the name "cardsnwords" back then, which is why it says "thisismylifenao" on there.)
Here you can also see that the edges are not really smooth and that they are even kinda dirty because of the *cough* not so good *cough* sandpaper I used.
Also, in hindsight, I shouldn't have used space between the paragraphs, because in a bound book that just looks weird. But either way, I am happy that I stuck with binding books.
