/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.18333357]

how do i print out my own diary into a book

[Anonymous No.18333392]

>>18333357
with some ink and a working printer

[Anonymous No.18333421]

>>18333392
the lazy way is fine i could put it in laminate

[Anonymous No.18333433]

use adobe In Design, print it out, cut the pages in half then glue it together inside a cardstock binding maybe put some cloth oevr the cardstock and glue it

[Anonymous No.18333489]

>>18333421
books aren't laminated

[Anonymous No.18333495]

>>18333421
>>18333357
Anon what the fuck

[Anonymous No.18333518]

>>18333357
Print is dead, upload a Vocaroo of you reading it in it's entirety

[Anonymous No.18333592]

>>18333518
Would listen

[Anonymous No.18334049]

>>18333357
If you just want to print one copy of it for whatever reason, then get a printer, print it out, set it so that it prints two pages on each page, and prints double-sided, (there are settings in most Word-Processors to make that happen), and once it's printed, arrange the pages in order, cut them in half, and then look up a book-binding tutorial on Youtube.

If you're looking to print a book for the purpose of publishing, then you CAN do that on a home printer, but it'll be maddeningly inefficient, and ultimately result in going through more ink, and electricity than the situation warrants, as you'd effectively just be printing one copy at a time. If you want to mass-manufacture the fuckers, then you need some kind of offset-printer, and those can be rather expensive. You'd also need a steady supply of both ink, and paper, and the issue of binding is going to come up again, with every individual book that you make, so you'd need some kind of workshop, and employees to pull it off effectively.

Ultimately your only realistic option in the latter case is to sign up with one of those self-publishing places like lulu, where you just upload a pdf, click some formatting options, and then have them print out a new copy, whenever somebody orders one.