Luqman Azhar is a rare breed in the Malaysian old trades scene – a young man with a knack for breathing new life into antiquarian books. The 36-year-old avid reader and book collector turned his ...

How exactly do you use 3D printing to assist in the extremely tedious and difficult art of leather book binding? It’s pretty simple actually — by 3D printing the title you want to emboss! [Luc Volders ...

Do all book covers look the same today? Euronews Culture goes under the dust cover with those that design them. Go into any bookshop and you’ll see a smorgasbord of design styles. There will be the ...

Mark Andersson has always loved to make and fix things, but when a church in Boston asked him to repair some books in its archives, he couldn't sleep. Using tape to patch ripped pages and broken ...

DUSSELDORF, GERMANY—May 6, 2012—C.P. Bourg, the world’s leading developer and supplier of on-demand document binding and finishing equipment, introduced a major advance in producing perfect-bound ...

Willem Bosch’s Dutch grandmother watched neighbors fleeing their homes during World War I, carrying little more than their family Bibles. “So when dad was 14, his mother advised him to become a book ...

Don and Connie Osborne, in the front on the left, bought Houchen Bindery in 1977. Helping run the family operation are, from back left, son Damon, son Landon, son-in-law John Salistean and grandson ...

Getting to design your own book cover is the sort of ultimately maddening power that probably shouldn’t be entrusted to vain mortals. It’s a little like getting to choose your own face. What kind of ...