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thanks sarah I might give it a try I would give the books to my family.

I am going to check out the site too.

Thanks again

Original Post: Binding a book

So you have a book on your harddrive and you are itching to see it in print. Or you want to make a blank book...skip to the binding part, you only need blank paper.

Once you have the layouts in Pagemaker or other publishing program and they are in the proper collated order you can print out your inside pages.

1st Rule: The number of pages in your book has to be devisable by 4 or you will need to add blank pages until it does. The paper is folded in half and front and back makes four pages.

2nd : They have a set order that they will have to be put into when sending to your printer to print them front and back. I give an example of a 16 pg layout.

Imagine taking apart the book and removing the pages like an onion peel. This is the order the pages will go in.

Last Page- First Page on reverse Second page- Next to Last page and so on as in the diagram.

**Notice the numbering pattern and that all page pairs add up to the total number of pages plus one.... = 17 in this case.