I've never tried this before...if you have some ideas on what type of book you would want....I would be interested.

i would love to do a book exchange, i am in the process of doing two right now. though i have to admit that i am a sort of non-treadtional book binder, in that, i dont do the beautiful curved spine or leather work i have seen so many people here talk about.

i do pamphlets, accordions, stab binds, and coptic stitch, and any thing else i can turn into a book concept, like things in jars or boxes ect, books that are loose leaf with plastic toys for illustrations, books with street cleaner blades sewn into them, and books that have been made solely for the purpose of being mailed.

example 1: the book portfolio im working on right now (the first one) i am doing an edition of 14, 1 page, for an accordion book that will link each participants pages together with the theme of green, and carmina burana (we were each assign 2 peices of music from it to work from), it, of course, has a fold down size restriction so that the pages can be linked together.

example 2: the other exchange i am working on is an edition of 12, and the theme is childhood. the only restriction is that the book must be packaged in a jar, and labeled.

i have done many many other books, but i have often got the impression that people in this tribe do more traditional bindings, and i might be a little too content obsessed or whimsical . . . or something like that. i am a printmaker by nature, so i am a FIRM believer in edtioning.

anyhow, if you think i would fit into a book exchange, i would love to participate, though ill be gone almost all summer, so i dont know if time will allow it, depending on when the deadline is. but i would fully understand if this was something reaching for a more polished and traditional exchange.

i think thats all.