Posts Tagged ‘handbound’

recycled paper notebooks

May 1, 2008





These are pictures of two recycled notebooks I made. Thankfully, my mother likes to study languages by writing down words repetitively, so these notebooks are useful around the house.
It is surprising how much one-sided paper is thrown away every day in institutions that have a printer and copier. I’m happy to see paper being used to its every square inch.

I’ve seen notebooks like these being sold on Etsy and at the Paper Source (the one they carried had folded the pages so that the printed side of the paper would not be visible. Thus the pages were bulky), but so far, the best thing to do is make these yourself and use them at home — you probably don’t want to sell your personal documents via printed matter in the notebook.

I hope to find a way to collect non-private documents so that they can be made into distributable notebooks.