Useful Books:
For beginners, two basic books that are not too expensive:
Making Handmade Books: 100+ Bindings, Structures and Forms by Alisa Golden --
This is a compilation of her two previous books, Creating Handmade Books and Unique Handmade Books.
Bookcraft: Techniques for Binding Folding and Decorating to Create Books and More by Heather Weston -- Pictorials for 13 types of bindings for beginners and also a great list of economic alternative materials to use if you don't want to spend lots of money on book making tools. Gallery of inspiration pages.
Other tutorials online:
Stamphenge Minibooks -- gold mine of tutorials/instructions for mini-books/minibooks, mini-albums/minialbums -- junk journals, envelope books, post-it notebook, accordions of different types, skinny books, origami/flower fold books, squash books, diamond fold books, one sheet of paper books, meander book, resources, etc..
Minibooks in the classroom:
Playful Bookbinding and Paper Works
Susan Gaylord YouTube Channel
National Museum of Woman in the Arts -- download instructions for many types of books
Booklyn Artist Alliance -- download instructions for many types of books.
Andrew Eason -- has downloadable instructions to use in the classroom
Blogs with Tutorials/Ideas
(mostly advanced and inspirational):
My Handbound Books
Erin Zam
James Darrow at Deviant Art has a few tutorials
Useful Info:
How to Repair Paper Bag Books Wiki -- pictorial tutorials
Ironing a Paperback Spine (DIY 411)
Simple Techniques for the Maintanence and Repair of Books (PDF - 34 pages)
