How to bind a book

Step 2 Cut and fold the pages

Cut the pages to the proper size, which is the height you want them to be and twice the width

So, if I want 8.5 x 5.5 pages, I would use 8.5 x 11 paper (landscape style)

Or if I want a 9 x 5 it would be 9 x 10 paper.

Then fold them in half "hamburger" style (fold the long edge in half) and collate them into signatures.

A "signature" is a small packet of pages nesting inside of each other. I personally use 7 sheet (that's big pieces of paper, not book pages) signatures-- anything above 9 or 10 is too thick (if there are multiple signatures**), and anything below 3 is too thin and will rip.



**If your book is, say, 12 pages only, it's okay. But you can't really do more than two or so "thick" signatures)