Hello again! I thought it might be fun to do a 'How To' for hardcover bookbinding. It's pretty involved, but don't let that put you off- no individual step is all that difficult once you get the hang of it, and it's easy to do it a bit at a time if you have time constraints. This isn't the only way to go about it, but it's what I usually do for a hardcover. For demonstration purposes, I'm using 'The Road to Mandalay' by :iconrobert-baird: (neat guy, writes neat stuff).

Before we get started though, here's a list of things you'll need (as well as any workable substitutes I know of). You can find most of it at an art store or on the internet. You'll notice as well that you can substitute paper or cardstock for several of them (although it won't be as durable).

Materials:
- The pages to be in the book, trimmed to desired size
- Nice paper or cardstock for the endsheets
- Board for covers (2-ply chipboard, or binder's board, you might even get away with gluing enough layers of cardstock together)
- Material for the cover (cloth, faux leather, real leather, cardstock, thick paper- anything thin and reasonably flexible)
- Glue (something that dries flexible rather than hardening brittle is best, I use a bookbinders PVA glue)
- Thread/string (technically optional, but a nice bit of structural reinforcement)
- Bookbinding 'Super' Cloth (you could use starched muslin, or just strong paper or cardstock again)
- Headband material (Optional, but it just doesn't look right without them)

Tools and miscellaneous:
- Scissors
- Box knife
- Wax paper
- Scrap paper to cover anything you don't want glue on
- Brush and/or putty knife to spread glue evenly where you do want it
- Book clamp (pictured on left, you can get away with a couple of boards and some clamps or even binder clips if you're feeling confident; all we need is to keep the pages together and straight while we work with them)
- Hacksaw (not strictly necessary if you're skipping the string)
- 2 Thin dowels (optional but helpful to get the hinges right; about 1/8 inch is fine, at least it works for the thickness of board I use)
- Boards or other flat movable object to pin things under while glue is setting
- Weights or other large books to put on top of the boards (keeps things drying flat)