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mark12_30 · 02-08-2003, 10:15 AM

Using a sharp knife and some tape, and with a little help from a handy color printer and a Tolkien Artwork site, I've found that certain scout-cookie boxes can be made into handy little slipcases suitable for mass market paperbacks. And if you get determined, slipcases can be made from any decent cardboard to fit any shape book... I now have homemade slipcases for HoME (3 separate ones: one for the first 5 plus Unfinished Tales, all in Mass Market Paperback; another for History of Lord of the Rings, Trade Paperback (wish I'd held out for the official box, but I bought them singly), currently I'm using the box my collector's edition DVD came in for larger hardbacks (currently holding 2 and waiting for 2 more, but in the meantime the Sil and an omnibus are parked there. ) There's another homemade slipcase for my paperback omnibus, decorated to look like The Red Book.

I've also reverted to my old high school and college habit of covering my books (folding only, no tape touching the book itself.) Only now, with help from a scanner and color-printer, I can cover 'em with a dustjacket almost identical to the original cover.

Sometimes I even cover the homemade dust-cover with clear contact paper. To quote Mith-- sick, eh? It does eat up time but it's fun. Printing to do, gotta go.

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mark12_30 Stormdancer of Doom Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Elvish singing is not a thing to miss, in June under the stars Posts: 4,349	Using a sharp knife and some tape, and with a little help from a handy color printer and a Tolkien Artwork site, I've found that certain scout-cookie boxes can be made into handy little slipcases suitable for mass market paperbacks. And if you get determined, slipcases can be made from any decent cardboard to fit any shape book... I now have homemade slipcases for HoME (3 separate ones: one for the first 5 plus Unfinished Tales, all in Mass Market Paperback; another for History of Lord of the Rings, Trade Paperback (wish I'd held out for the official box, but I bought them singly), currently I'm using the box my collector's edition DVD came in for larger hardbacks (currently holding 2 and waiting for 2 more, but in the meantime the Sil and an omnibus are parked there. ) There's another homemade slipcase for my paperback omnibus, decorated to look like The Red Book. I've also reverted to my old high school and college habit of covering my books (folding only, no tape touching the book itself.) Only now, with help from a scanner and color-printer, I can cover 'em with a dustjacket almost identical to the original cover. Sometimes I even cover the homemade dust-cover with clear contact paper. To quote Mith-- sick, eh? It does eat up time but it's fun. Printing to do, gotta go. [ February 08, 2003: Message edited by: mark12_30 ] __________________ ...down to the water to see the elves dance and sing upon the midsummer's eve.