This guide will show you how to bind books by hand. The process from start to finish isn’t very difficult as long as you follow each step along the way. The final product looks great, and we can’t ...

On a still, hot day in August, I’m snaking through Venice in a water taxi, gliding between the moored boats bobbing on its quiet canals. I’m dropped off at the edge of Cannaregio, at the steps of an ...

Few items in the home are as ubiquitous, and as unexamined, as the bindings around our books. We line books up on a shelf, pile them on the nightstand, arrange them for display on coffee tables. But ...

Gary Buchner has had many jobs. He served in the Navy, worked as a chef, trained as a therapist, sold real estate. Then came the career that captured his heart. It started when he browsed through a ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...

Family-owned Americana Bookcraft in downtown Billings, one of two in Montana, celebrates its 30th anniversary next month while the owner wonders how big a bite the e-book craze will eventually take ...