ANTAGONISTIC BOOKS: Danger - How To make a book that sets itself on fire

Step 4 Assemble the book

Suddenly, I realize I have no good photos of this. What you want to do here is lay the book pages out like [front cover] [binding] [back cover] and place strips of duct tape over the spaces between the binding and the front cover, and then the binding and the back cover. You will want the binding width to be about 3/4". It's the binding with that lets the string move when you open the book, so having more binding width is better.

You can see in the photo that the way to attach the string is to tie one end to the catch at close to the position you want it to have where it is holding the slider in place. Thread the string through the hole nearest the catch, and then out the hole near the binding. The string should go outside the binding, into the first hole on the front cover, and then tied in the second hole. Tie the string while the book is closed so that when the book opens the string becomes lose and releases the catch. This is pretty easy to figure out, especially now since you have the spring installed and can test it easily.

The next thing you'll probably want to do is glue or tape larger pieces of cardboard to the back. This will make the back extra thick, but it will also make sure that the fabric you cover the book with doesn't interfere with the match lighting. I have the cardboard cut how it is so that there will be airflow to the match lighting area. This is important to keep the match from not lighting or going out immediately