Just in case anyone cared, this was recorded at a print shop in White Plains, MD called AGS. Upper management made a big deal out of these guys coming and had us clean all the equipment and hang our logo on everything. Pretty funny to see that not a single shot of a logo made it on the episode.

I pray that paper books never leave the market. Although ebooks save paper and are cheaper, I still love the feeling of actually turning a paper page and reading them with my fingers holding the book. I pray that bookstores and libraries never get demolished. Paper books, FTW!

Watches "How It's Made Books", learns how magazines are made.

"book binding" Shows making a throw-away junk/ad magazine.

Now I just need to know how they can justify $200+ for a college textbook.............

Am i the only here who imagined how if my hand were on that machine?

They're actually magazines

as a former employee of a book making company. i remember those machines all too well. then the economy got bad and it closed but i miss it. we used to put all kinds of books together. but we called that machine she called the guillotine a trimmer and we stacked them different.

Narrator from airline safety announcement explains how magazines are made. Nausea from overinflection, hyperinflection

"The 16th century saw the arrival of cheaper, printed, books with simple pasteboard bindings." Way to downplay one of the most momentous inventions in the history of mankind

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First "book" looks like a junk mail catalog. Second book is a paperback. Where is vid showing a real hard cover book being made?

"The staples are cut from steel wire that's so strong, you have to tear the book apart to remove them". How about just a staple remover?

Came here to see if it's BS or not. I work in a factory that makes books and that's exactly how are made. The first machine is used for small tiny "books" usually made for advertisement or instructions for a product. But I mostly work on the second machine, I feed the machine with signatures (stacks of pages, we must be careful because the machine doesn't recognize if the pages are in correct order).

On the guillotine, the operator uses a foot pedal to bring down the press and then pushes a button with each hand to bring down the blade. His hands were safe.

oh yeah! I love that slow motion action...

wow it is amazing how the machine crops the thick books so easily.

I did this by hand in a high school course. We did manual guillotine cutting, held down the stack with a large vise, and dipped our hands in glue to apply it to the side. Since it's not really necessary anymore, it's just interesting knowledge and 2 stacks of notepads I have left.

I am writing a Novel at the minute and wanted to know how books are bound, and didn't realize that I had my volume up. It's pretty late and woke everyone up with "BOOK BINDING".

Oh. It's one those voiced by that woman who sounds like a cross between a stoned Dalek and the dad from Eraserhead.

0:55 Its like no one has ever said guillotine around her...

I could honestly fall asleep to this, the machines are so relaxing

I had 49 years in the print finishing trade, very stressfull work.Usually the managers of print factories dont know much about the shop floor problems, or care, its all down to get the job out to the customer ASAP.

I loved the intricate sketches prior to the construction. :)

I agree, I work as a bookbinder and they missed alot in this video, but I think they're just showing some general stuff.

1:14 "as we see here in slow-motion..." *video speeds up*

Very Interesting Video Thank You for sharing!

I only came here because the thought of how textbooks were made popped into my head while studying Organic Chem wondering how all this info in my text book was printed 😂 what a distraction 😅

Thanks. I used this for my class.

Thank you! Very educational!

2:30-2:40 CRAZY SLO-MO Stapling ACTION!

This narrator makes me nauseated

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Literally only watched this for sort of ideas on how to bind my book series

Thanks you for the lesson !

I miss running buckle folders... and presses... and cutters and stitchers and all things printing lol..... I haven't printed a sheet in over 20 years but I guarantee I'd walk back into the trade like it's just been a 4 day weekend

The cut is so satisfying

Perfect bind machines are such a pain in the ass.

Amazing process.

Imagine if just one of those pages got out of place

Look at that staple action

that type of industrial machine (hydraulic presses) is usually is protected, probably there's a sensor that stops the machine if there's something inside the moving part zone.

i was sitting on the toilet when I had the sudden desire to know how books are made. so when i was done I went on youtube, searched it up, and watched this video. thanks. lol.

I'll go back to binding my own books thanks... no glued or stapled spines for my notebooks and sketchbooks

Amaizing!

I have operated all of these machines except the guillotine. Some days I really miss it.

0:06 Grabs the attention of any Undertale fan watching this video.

That voice makes me laugh! XD

great work

@Sciencebox2010 You know those guillotines have laser sensors which cut the machine out if you get anywhere near the blade as it trims, and there are 2 buttons which are both underneath the bench that have to be pushed together and held to activate the blade...so it's literally impossible for your hands to be near it as it trims :) it's safer than a working in a kitchen.

@Sciencebox2010 It's a lot less dangerous than it looks... the first bar that comes down is the clamp to stop the paper from shifting, and it's non-serrated so it wouldn't cut you, nor would it crush your hand either because it is likely sensor or operator driven. The blade only comes down when the technician stands back and his hands are well clear... it's most likely operated by foot pedal. It just looks very fluid and automated because he's probably done it thousands of times.

Holy crap! It's Robot!! Mom and I hear her all the time on TV!!

beautiful..

CNC guillotines are very safe machines. They are designed so that the blade ram will not operate if your arms are sitting over or on the table.

I like how she says "process."

take a shot everytime she says "slow motion"

The only difference between a magazine and a book is the number of advertisements. The binding methods are the same.

wow just fucking incredible.

the consonates in that first sentence

Addicting...

most guillotines have a foot pedal and 1/2 buttons to push as a safety mechanism. normally 2 so you have both your hands out of the machine.

XD. I've tried this. You need to push two buttons at the same time to make the cut. It´s fairly safe.

It depends on the type of textbook. All of the textbooks I currently used aren't bound like this.

Books taught me more English than all of my English teachers combined.

@sTyLnK i think he has to push 2 buttons, 1 with each hand to make the gillotine operate, so it is 100% sure that he has no hand under there

@weaver2109 There's a foot pedal that he has to reach and then push down for the guillotine to work, so it's not as bad as you think. It's not like he only have a few seconds to do the job before it comes down. lol. He control when it does.

we went to see one on a school trip last year, the machine has a sensor, so it wont cut ur fingers off :P it stops automatically if something crosses the sensor

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Unless the operator locks one of the buttons for faster operating. That`s why photo-barriers where invented :)

Now I know why sometimes I get books with pages still sticking together... the 3-side cutter thing must have missed it.

They should make a book on that!!!

the title of this episode was actually "How It's made - BookBINDING" so ofcourse they will only show the bookbinding part. maybe the uploader had a little mistake and entitled it as "How It's made - Book"

is it possible to make a home made book with a staple in the folded line? like in comic books

that new book smell. oh sweet jebus :D

hahahaha this helped me on my homework. :P

I love the woman at the start, her voice is so funny

2:26 DAT stapling action!

Go Go Gadget, book binder!

Perfect binding is anything but.

Wow that's how paper is made oh

Procrastinating level 59...

@weaver2109 I had that job as a tween and teen. It doesn't cut until you push a button with your foot. I still have all ten fingers.

the music, so so sensual

Why is that? There are so many safety devices that it's fairly hard to injure yourself unless you get your fingers caught under the 'hold down clamp' - you control that with your foot. Go to the search and put in "Printing Industry - Heidelberg Polar Pace Cutter System". The system shown is a fully automatic model, but gives you a good idea of what goes on.

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2:25 Ohhhh Damn that stapling action... *drools* ffffffff i just came...

I work in a bindery. HOPEFULLY it works right. Ha Ha! Lots of little parts in those stitching heads.

i love books sooooooooooooooooooooo mutch

you are an awesome person, i now bow b4 u :)

i have so many books glues way and they tear pages when i turn a page

Those are magazines. I want to see how ACTUAL books are made. Like hard cover books...

Very interesting 🧐

books from my school use perfect bindings and it really irritating after about 3 months the pages inside the books starts to ripping of each time i turn the pages.

What about huge books like text books and regular reading books?

I have a bookshelf with 7 shelves of books!!! When u don't have a movie, just go to books, movies for your mind!!! LOL

My favorite book is text in a RPG.

You have to push a button with your left and right hand, only then will the machine cut the paper.

What about before all that? Do they have to retype every word of the manuscript again and again to make the pages? What about before e computers/ Especially with illustrations....

It's amazing how people get both top comments.

5:00 "Those newer methods are far less costly yet still produce books that are sturdy and durable." I think "durable" is not quite the right word.