Booklets are small and have fewer than 20 pages.
Whether you need a multiple-page sales brochure or a gift for a graduate or a child's birthday, simple booklets allow you to personalize information. By definition, booklets have a binding or cover and run about 20 pages long or less, according to Business Dictionary. They are often instructional or promotional. Booklets for children are usually illustrated. Children's booklets are often used to teach phonics, vocabulary and reading comprehension. Homemade recipe or craft idea booklets can be used as fundraisers.
Instructions
1. Print your booklet on white printer paper, in a landscape orientation with a "book fold" format, using duplex printing. Landscape orientation means that the long side of the page is horizontal. Book fold format prints two pages on the same side of the paper, side by side. Duplex printing prints on both sides of the page.
2. Fold the short ends of each sheet of white paper together. Stack the pages inside each other. This will make a 4.25-by-5.5-inch booklet.
3. Use a sharpened awl with a 1/16-inch diameter needle tip to pierce along the folded side of the folded booklet every quarter-inch. Douglas W. Jones of the University of Iowa recommends using a bookbinding jig made from a straight-edged piece of notched cardboard to help you keep the number, spacing and position of the holes the same for all pages.
4. Thread the bookbinding needle with coat thread or waxed dental floss and knot the end. Push the needle through the first hole in all the pages and pull on the thread until the knotted end is tight against the outside of the booklet.
5. Push the needle through the next-closest hole and pull the thread until it is tight but not enough to wrinkle the booklet. Repeat until you have sewn through each hole going from the top of the booklet's spine to the bottom. Knot the end again, tightly against the booklet.
6. Use a 1-inch trim brush to spread notepad adhesive on the outside front of the booklet. Place the booklet inside the folded sheet of colored paper, matching the spines. Press from the center of the fold to the left edge of the booklet to make sure there are no air bubbles between it and the cover. Repeat, pressing from the center of the fold to the right edge.
7. Use the trim brush to spread notepad adhesive on the outside of the last white page of booklet and press it into the inside of the cover. Allow the adhesive to dry overnight.
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