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What this site is all about
The title
The URL of this site is relevant to its content. It is written by me - but it is not about me, it is about bookcraft ~ the hobby of making books. I reserve the term bookbinding for the profession of bookmaking.Content
The site is a summary of some aspects of bookcraft gleaned by me over the fifty five years since I trained in the subject. I have been writing my thoughts and ~ I hope ~ helpful comments for several years, and gradually developed a style. The magic of the WWW turns a set of disjointed topics into a ready-reference-wiki discourse. Because so many bookcraft ideas are also general craft skills ~ and because I also trained as a cabinet-maker ~ I have merged the writings into a parent site called busybusydotco.Style
I was taught by the scientists ~ at school and university ~ to write in the passive tense…“A glass tube was taken and filled with water…”. That seemed to be too authoritative a style for my informal approach to the site. I am not writing the definitive text book on the subject ~ there are several of those that cover almost every topic in excellent detail. I am writing my thoughts ~ and you are welcome to disagree or disregard them. So I have adopted an unashamedly first-person style ~ witout ~I hope ~ being too subjective in my likes or dislikes. If you don’t like it you have not lost any money by buying a book ~ and you are are welcome to go elsewhere. There is a lot of really good stuff ~ easily found ~ on the WWW already.On-line
The two huge advantages of on-line writing are the ease of following links and the ability to provide an abundance of illustrations. There are no adverts or other distractions. If something is mistaken or not clear enough I will try to revise it ~ but I need someone to point it out first ~ mail@highview.co.ukTechnical Stuff
The original intention was to limit each topic to a single page of a desktop PC. My ability to waffle soon put an end to that. The opening pages ~ such as this ~ have been constructed with the help of template software by the England-based team at Xara. The main knowledge base was originally written in simple HTML code, and I have no desire or time to re-write it. It serves the purpose well, and has the additional advantage of being completely responsive. Such matters are under the busybusy.co banner ~ a separate site, but seamlessly linked to bookcraft.me.Links
There are numerous links everywhere on the busybusydotco site. Some explanation may be needed ~ and I will jot it down indue course. Meanwhile ~ please enjoy what you can!
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© busybusydotco
bookcraft.me
What this site is all about
The title
The URL of this site is relevant to its content. It is written by me - but it is not about me, it is about bookcraft ~ the hobby of making books. I reserve the term bookbinding for the profession of bookmaking.Content
The site is a summary of some aspects of bookcraft gleaned by me over the fifty five years since I trained in the subject. I have been writing my thoughts and ~ I hope ~ helpful comments for several years, and gradually developed a style. The magic of the WWW turns a set of disjointed topics into a ready- reference-wiki discourse. Because so many bookcraft ideas are also general craft skills ~ and because I also trained as a cabinet-maker ~ I have merged the writings into a parent site called busybusydotco.Style
I was taught by the scientists ~ at school and university ~ to write in the passive tense…“A glass tube was taken and filled with water…”. That seemed to be too authoritative a style for my informal approach to the site. I am not writing the definitive text book on the subject ~ there are several of those that cover almost every topic in excellent detail. I am writing my thoughts ~ and you are welcome to disagree or disregard them. So I have adopted an unashamedly first-person style ~ witout ~I hope ~ being too subjective in my likes or dislikes. If you don’t like it you have not lost any money by buying a book ~ and you are are welcome to go elsewhere. There is a lot of really good stuff ~ easily found ~ on the WWW already.On-line
The two huge advantages of on-line writing are the ease of following links and the ability to provide an abundance of illustrations. There are no adverts or other distractions. If something is mistaken or not clear enough I will try to revise it ~ but I need someone to point it out first ~ mail@highview.co.ukTechnical Stuff
The original intention was to limit each topic to a single page of a desktop PC. My ability to waffle soon put an end to that. The opening pages ~ such as this ~ have been constructed with the help of template software by the England-based team at Xara. The main knowledge base was originally written in simple HTML code, and I have no desire or time to re-write it. It serves the purpose well, and has the additional advantage of being completely responsive. Such matters are under the busybusy.co banner ~ a separate site, but seamlessly linked to bookcraft.me.Links
There are numerous links everywhere on the busybusydotco site. Some explanation may be needed ~ and I will jot it down indue course. Meanwhile ~ please enjoy what you can!
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