Books and Online Resources

There are lots and lots of books and other resources for bookmaking. Take a look at the crafting aisle at B&N and you'll see...the place is lousy with bookbooks!

Here are a few of my favorites:

For book form basics, plus beautiful pictures that will inspire you:

• Creating Handmade Books by Alisa Golden
• Cover to Cover by Shereen LaPlantz

For really detailed descrips on hardcover binding:

• Bookbinding for Book Artists by Keith A. Smith

For books on visual theory, etc.:

• Structure of the Visual Book and
  
• Text in the Book Format, both by Keith A. Smith

These are a couple of specialty books I also really like:

• The Pop-Up Book by Paul Jackson
• Re-Bound (Creating Handmade Books from Recycled and Repurposed Materials) by Jeannine Stein

ON THE WEB

Two of my favorite sites offer instruction, connections to the book arts community, lists of places to order supplies, and more:

http://www.philobiblon.com
http://www.booklyn.org