Instructions for printing, binding, and distributing the Little Library Magazine


PRINTING:

1) Use 'Letter' size paper (8.5" x 11").

2) With a pencil, lightly mark a small 'x' in the corner of a blank piece of printer paper. Put this sheet in your printer's tray or feeder with the 'x' facing up.

3) Print the file labelled 'page-1-front'.

- Set the print orientation to 'landscape'
- Set the scale to 100% and/or use 'borderless' printing.
- Personally, I'm also printing the zine in black & white; colour ink is expensive!

4) Make a note of whether the page prints on the same side as your pencil 'x' or on the opposite side.

- If the printed image is on the same side as the 'x', then you will need to put the printed side face down to print the back of the page. 
- If the page prints on the opposite side of the 'x', put the printed side face up to print the back.
- IMPORTANT: if you need to flip the page to print the back, be sure to flip it end-to-end/lengthwise!

5) Print the file ending with 'page-1-back' onto the back of the page.

6) If everything went ok, then repeat these steps, printing multiple copies at once.

7) Print the remaining pages in the same manner.



COLLATING & BINDING:

1) Carefully fold each page in half and assemble your zine(s). Make sure the pages are in the same order as the 'reading version' of the zine.

2) Bind the pages along the fold line with staples, or poke three small holes along the fold and bind with thread/yarn/twine. 

Here's a nice guide to the 'pamphlet stitch' method of binding: 
https://www.loc.gov/preservation/resources/educational/bookarts/pamphlet.pdf

3) Be creative! You might decide to:

- use coloured and/or heavier paper for the cover
- add a doodle on the back cover
- use a fun kind of thread/yarn for binding



DISTRIBUTION:

1) Tiptoe around your neighbourhood under the cover of darkness, stealthily placing copies of the zine into the Tiny Little Libraries in your neighbourhood.