hellooo everyone. yes, i have been lurking a bit. silly "work" has been interfering with my tribe.net time.

i'm starting my first binding project in a while, and i thought i'd ask for some advice. the project is this: turn a paperback cookbook that does not lay flat into a hardback cookbook that does lay flat.

the book is about 7inches by 6inches, and has the typical paperback binding -- looks like signatures, but not sewn, just glued. i think this is "burst" binding...?

what i'm thinking of doing is following this guide:

temperproductions.com/QJ-how-...inte.htm

and just leaving the old spine of the book on the inside of the new spine. perhaps color copying the spine and then glueing it down over the hardback spine.

it sounds pretty ghetto, but really, the book needs to be more functional than beautiful.

anyone got any caveats? ideas? tips? tricks?