[Craft] Does anyone do bookbinding?

[pf3ix85fe Pandora]

After a few decades, I've finally upgraded to wanting a permanent fancy grimoire instead of just a million journals spanning those decades
I have the leather, I have the pages. I have chipboard and thread, but this begs the question: Do you prefer sewing the bindings (and therefore never be able to add pages in the future), or doing a travel journal style which allows switching out component pages at will?

Does anyone else do bookbinding and have opinions on this??

 

[Morell]

I'm hobbyist bookbinder.

Tris truly depends on your preference. I have dozen of hardcover journals, each being unique piece of art.

If it were a final text, I would definitely bind it and make a book. With journal, well, you might probably want a fat one, if you make a lot of notes. If just few notes here and there and need to remove sometimes, then impermanent is better.

 

[pf3ix85fe Pandora]

Thanks Morell!
I think the biggest concern I have is that things evolve, so permanence is kind of a scary idea for hand binding a book.
While I plan for this book to be mainly the tables and strategies and proven occult work, etc, there's something so final about doing the binding. I will explore options for being able to add or delete pages

 

[Digiquo]

I am considering looking into bookbinding myself for various projects, but I can tell you seem to be occupied with the thought of your "true grimoire" being a be-all-end-all that is perfect in all knowledge and truth and are afraid of it being anything less.
I write music sometimes, and one of the biggest obstacles I had to learn to overcome was that the things I want to write about are merely snapshots in time of who I was, who I was with, and what I was doing, and aren't representative of myself or my thoughts or my life in the present, and that that's perfectly okay. Even now, I'm still rolling around ideas for songs in my head that have nothing to do with me now, but are rather reflections of the thoughts and feelings of a younger me that was too preoccupied with his goings-ons to even think about writing a song about them.
This is all to say, do not be afraid to make this grimoire "permanent" if that's what would appeal most to you, because chances are no matter what lengths you go to you will wind up changing your mind about something or learn something new that throws everything else into a fresh perspective and your grimoire is now outdated, but that doesn't mean it's useless or without value.

 

[Morell]

..., but I can tell you seem to be occupied with the thought of your "true grimoire" being a be-all-end-all that is perfect in all knowledge and truth and are afraid of it being anything less...

Indeed. Things always change so final grimoire is impossible to make anyway. However at some point if you have enough of knowledge, putting it into a book is not a waste. On that note I would say: write it as if you were writing it for a student that will one day read it and won't be able to ask you anything.

 

[pf3ix85fe Pandora]

Indeed. Things always change so final grimoire is impossible to make anyway. However at some point if you have enough of knowledge, putting it into a book is not a waste. On that note I would say: write it as if you were writing it for a student that will one day read it and won't be able to ask you anything

Excellent advice, and yes, that is my plan. I want this to be something that will age past my natural life and provide resources to someone else.

I do not seek permanence per se. What I want is something that is adaptable to the changes in methodology. If I wasn't growing in the future, that is an issue so I want some modularity, but I feel like some things won't change and I want them to be protected