I was really excited when I realized that one of the Rose Scholars events was bookmaking. I’m an amateur bookbinder, but I often don’t have the time or space to make anything, so this was a great opportunity for me. I thought it was interesting to learn about what Zines are, but personally I found the actual binding part far more interesting. I made two booklets, one with rounded edges, which made me now want to buy an edge rounder, through the method they showed us, and the other by messing around with some of the stuff I know. Both of these were through a simple folding method, basically like a magazine. This made me realize, though, that I far prefer making hard cover books because they’re less limiting. With the simple folding method, you’re limited to a certain number of pages or else your book won’t lie flat, but with a hardcover book, or I suppose a perfect bound book too, you can have as many pages and configurations as you want. And you can have more creativity with how you bind.