For years I have been printing PDFs off on regular paper and then binding them into books. 1. Print it at work when no one is looking. 2. Get two rigid boards and squeeze the stack of paper together. I customarily use two wooden armrests that originally came from a garden-furniture lounger. 3. Squeeze the paper with just a 1/4-inch showing. 4. Use wood glue and with your finger working like a toothbrush, work the glue into the pages at the gluing end. 5. Get a 14-inch X 4-inch strip of canvas. I use cutoff painter's canvas. 6. Hang all this by the boards and put glue also on top of the canvas strip. 7. When it dries, remove the boards and glue down the sides. You have a strong, bound book out of those printed pages.

It’s unclear how this is related to the article, but I’m intrigued by your simple DIY bookbinding process.

It seems straightforward except for the canvas strip (I assume this is part of the binding?), and whether you add thicker pages/boards on each side as covers.

Do you have any photos of the process, or at least of a finished product? Thanks!