Make a book

When I shared my 90 notes to self project with my wife she gave me a great suggestion: Have all of the images printed and bound as a book. She meant “hire a service to have a book printed” but where’s the fun in that? I have a printer, book binder‘s glue, and a free Saturday. Let’s make a book.Before the weekend came around I found this great little YouTube video which demonstrates the technique I wanted to use. This is a pure, wholesome YouTube video. No demands to like and subscribe. Just a demo on how to do a thing. The technique is straightforward. I don’t have the book press he has, but I could improvise with my big binder clips and strips of wood. I don’t have a bench clamp, but I do have a giant stack of heavy art books. I could make this work.I used Affinity to lay out all of the pages for the book. Affinity is proving to be a really good software platform but their help documentation and AI search bot are incomplete and incorrect. It took a while to figure out how to do page…