OOC - hardcopy of Sythyry's Journal

[sythyry]

It wouldn't be amazingly hard for me to put the backstory of Sythyry on a print-on-demand server. It'd probably come out costing $17-20 for a bound hardcopy of the story so far. (That's about $5 for the binding, $10 for the printing of the pages, and a couple bucks for me.)

Now, this wouldn't be anything that you couldn't get here for free. It would be in better shape than the current story so far. And of course many people find it more pleasant to read paper than screens, etc.

Are you interested enough in this for me to put the energy into doing it?

(This is not to be confused with real publishing, of course, no matter with what the print-on-demand server web site says.)

[Poll #619611]

Comments

[chipuni.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was wondering about the same thing...

For a project the size of Sythyry's diary, I think that you have to go with perfect binding or case binding over saddle-stitch. (I'd hate to think of the size of staples for saddle-stitch.)

On the other hand, I really do not like spiral plastic binding. (The spirals always get caught somewhere.)

[zeeth_kyrah]

Before the advent of perfect binding, most books were saddle-stitched into their bindings. It's not just a staple in the crease.

[chipuni.livejournal.com]

Okay. I'm showing my ignorance, then...

How would a saddle-stitch work in a book about the size of Sythyry's diary?

[zeeth_kyrah]

Proper saddle stitching bundles the pages into groups, sews the saddle of each group together, then sews the groups together and into the inner cover of the book. That inner cover is then pasted and/or sewn into the outer cover.

Stapling, as with most cheap comic books, just drops a staple or two into the saddle of a single clump of pages.

[zeeth_kyrah]

Hm. Found Lulu's help on bindings - from the picture, it looks like the saddle stitch they offer gathers all the pages into one group and then binds the single group as I described. I'm guessing the hardcover is the full-effort version of that (which is why it costs $15).

[chipuni.livejournal.com]

Thanks for doing the research. As I said, I'd rather not think about the ONE set of staples that they'd use for a book the size of Sythyry's diary.

(When it's the size of a comic book, or a throw-away magazine... that's fine. But not when there's over 100 sheets to staple!)