bookbinding

Explains basic book repair techniques useful to libraries with limited budgets, as well as alternative, more ambitious conservation treatments, covering paper cleaning and mending, water damage, mold and mildew, hinge and spine repair, and protective enclosures.

Relevant images match informative text in this introduction to how paper becomes a book.

Provides information on the terminology, tools, and techniques of bookbinding and includes step-by-step directions for twenty projects made from common and repurposed materials.

Presents the storybook to the movie "Inkheart" about Meggie's father, Mo, who, when he reads aloud, people and things appear out of the books; but when Meggie's mother, Resa, disappears into Inkheart, Meggie and Mo must find a way to get her back.

Explores some of the reasons for keeping a journal, and provides illustrated instructions for making journals in a variety of styles.

Twelve-year-old Meggie learns that her father Mo, a bookbinder, can "read" fictional characters to life when an evil ruler named Capricorn, freed from the novel "Inkheart" years earlier, tries to force Mo to release an immortal monster from the story.

"Offers ... bookbinding projects showcasing beautiful exposed bindings. Classified in chapters entitled Vintage, Nature, and Leather, projects include a mason jar book, a seashell book, and a classic-looking leather-bound photo album, to name a few"--Provided by publisher.

As Bluejay--Mo's fictitious double--tries to keep the Book of Immortality from unraveling, Adderhead kidnaps all the children in the kingdom, and demands that Bluejay either surrender or doom the children to slavery in the silver mines.

Describes the process of how a book is made, from preparing the manuscript, to printing and binding the.

Includes instructions on how to create different kinds of books.