Making Book Covers out of Glossy Brochures

Recycle old career fair brochures or other thick paper by making them into bookcovers. Some of the engineering companies at a career fair that I recently attended gave out company brochures printed on thick, glossy paper, making them very well suited for paperback book covers. In addition, many of the company brochures were nicely decorated.

Step 1 Gather Materials

You will need:
- book to be covered
- thick, glossy brochures or any other durable paper
- ruler (optional)
- pen or pencil for making marks (optional)
- tool for scoring paper (optional)

Comments

[porcupinemamma]

I am 52 yrs. old. When I went to school,every text book had to be covered with a book cover to preserve the book. I think the practice should be reintroduced. Nice video

[Fake_Name]

I like your choice in reading!

[Myself]

I unpacked a Nortel shipment a few years back where the shipping department had used rejected binder-box covers as packing material. These were the heavy semi-gloss paper used to cover the cardboard boxes into which the 3-ring documentation binders fit, to hold the bookshelf space open and keep things from falling over when a binder was removed. They made perfect book covers. :) I wonder if your local printer might have reasonable-size scraps of this material that you could snag. Some of it might already be printed with neat stuff, or you could turn it over and use the white side.