I made a 12,000 page bookbinding abomination

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6 ай бұрын

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One book just isn't enough - so I decided to rebind all the 14 books in the Wheel of Time series into one huge bookbinding abomination, with a total of 12.000 pages.
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@DanielGreeneReviews 6 ай бұрын

Having this sent to me right when I’m building my new bookshelf was just perfection. THANK YOU AGAIN SO MUCH!

@legobomber00 6 ай бұрын

We need a Brandon Sanderson react video next

@blacklabelz9 6 ай бұрын

I had no idea who she was going to send it to and you came to mind. I was about to pause the video and go comment on one of your videos to let you know this exists. And then the reveal surprise at the end was just perfect. Congrats to both of you.

@jaded787tiger5 6 ай бұрын

You were literally the one I thought as soon as wheel of time was mentioned😅

@dagahk1 6 ай бұрын

You gotta send this video to brandon!

@devinpeacock7940 6 ай бұрын

I never finished Wheel of Time, but this video and your reaction to it may change that 💜

@devinpeacock7940 6 ай бұрын

“Stupid projects require stupid solutions” needs to be on merch

@FlagCutie 6 ай бұрын

Yes!

@honey__lemoonn1814 6 ай бұрын

Ça existe depuis toujours

@AA-lk5my 6 ай бұрын

🙋‍♂🙋‍♂🙋‍♂

@braydenmorris1537 6 ай бұрын

🤌🏻🤌🏻🤌🏻🤌🏻

@619Slipk 6 ай бұрын

Was just about to comment on that line My life in a nutshell

@marmeia8207 5 ай бұрын

I'm a book restorer, and I can already tell you that some other book restorer will get this book in 200 years and be like: wtf.... how am I supposed to fix this 😂❤

@pupykig4914 5 ай бұрын

What would u doo

@WinterbornDeceit 5 ай бұрын

I had this thought while she was making it. Just - "What is a historian going to think when they find this CHONK in the future?"

@martins3993 5 ай бұрын

@@pupykig4914 There is not much to do. She glued it with non-reversible glue and she glued the whole spine together and then the leather directly to the spine. If it breaks it breaks.

@maxxiuhm 5 ай бұрын

@@martins3993okay but would you then bolt the two halves together? Thats what i would do and then just make it look like the leather patch over is a ✨design ✨ other wise. Now say you HAD to fix it how would you go about it?

@berenvalari 5 ай бұрын

Probably cut it into 14 volumes and rebind them each individually lol.

@TheSamuelCish 5 ай бұрын

Y'know if you bound the very first and last pages, skipping the covers all together, you could have yourself The Wheel of the Wheel of Time.

@NosebleeddeGroselha 4 ай бұрын

Then you turn it inside out and outside in to open and close it

@crafty4722 3 ай бұрын

@@NosebleeddeGroselhathose mean the exact same thing but I get what u mean

@blondlibrarian 5 ай бұрын

You can use sandpaper to even out the edges of the books so that the pages match perfectly. It's a trick we use in libraries to get rid of stains on the edges of paper but it also evens out the page edges.

@The_AntiVillain 5 ай бұрын

i was thinking a pipe vice and a wood plane

@cvbattum 5 ай бұрын

wouldn't sandpaper leave the edges a bit fuzzy and ugly?

@WolfODonnelfan 5 ай бұрын

@@cvbattum Depends entirely how fine sandpaper you're using

@rainnydaay2116 5 ай бұрын

also you would need some thing to press the pages together to they return to a wood like state and there fore: would not tear until at a much smaller level (== the grit of the paper) and will feel smoother to a human hand / eye / self. so the sand paper grit is actually less important than making sure the pages are evenly and firmly pressed together because the more wood like it is the easier it is to sand like normal wood and there for use a light human hand tough to control the out come: thus allowing even a coarse grit / angle grinder disk to do the job because the human hand can compensate for sand grit / pressure significantly better than whatever else comes into play when sanding book edges: im sure only the librarians know. im sure you meant well: im sure you chose wrong: simply: your own choice of words. it depends not entirely how fine sandpaper you're using: it depends entirely on how much love / effort you are willing to put in to make what you have on hand work for you. if you do not have sand papers you need not purchase them@!!!! you !need!: any :thing: coarse: of course an auto motive grade: 10 000 grit sand paper and a book press would yield a true wood like surface: But who left among us?": has any time of day left for such: non nonsensical none sense !!!

@MastaSquidge 4 ай бұрын

Yeah the whole time I was irrationally angry about it. Clamping it super tight and knocking the sides through a good sharp jointer would work too.

@Aerosklice 6 ай бұрын

I'm a professionnal bookbinder who graduated from école Estienne and I must say this is some great stuff, I can't wait for this monstrosity to be seen in a few decades or centuries in a rare book fair. Us bookbinders love funky shapes and systems. This is for sure a great fit. I'm pretty sure we all asked ourselves at some point "what if the text block was much wider than the spine is long ?" and this is a perfect example. Also this act of binding together multiple books is not new, it's called Sammelband (and other names but this one will work for an international comment on a youtube video) and has great historical interest as it allows us to define reading practices of the owner of the books who comissioned a bookbinder to bind them specifically together. It means it had meaning for the owner ! Great job, in so many crafts, you are an inspiration !

@bizm 6 ай бұрын

I'm now determined to Sammelband all of my favourite series, I'm so glad I saw your comment!

@delphinelavendermorgan4627 6 ай бұрын

@@bizmplease let us know when you do it

@SK22520 6 ай бұрын

Love your comment! ❤

@Bman1878 6 ай бұрын

Would love to see someone do this with _every_ Stephen King book, or maybe every _Guin Saga_ novel.

@vincent.photography 6 ай бұрын

No way, "Sammelband" is international... I'm german and it literally means "collection" but how was "Sammelband" etablished 😂

@homersimpson118 5 ай бұрын

GRRM: “A Feast For Crows was too big to publish as one book” Nerdforge: “Hold my beer.”

@LuzMaria95 5 ай бұрын

lmao 😂

@leonmayne797 2 ай бұрын

A Feast for Crows was published as one book though.

@xIII13-king 2 ай бұрын

@@leonmayne797 i think he means storm of swords

@afwalker1921 2 ай бұрын

A feast for crows always results in a murder...

@Braddockmbc Ай бұрын

@@leonmayne797 No. A Feast for Crows got diveded in two books, A Dance with Dragons being the second of the split

@ehxjsjd4553 2 ай бұрын

-"do you have something to read on the road trip, make sure it's long, we're going to be driving for a few hours." -"I know the exact book."

@zoezozo3151 Ай бұрын

Haha real

@Anorak610 27 күн бұрын

It’ll need its own seat

@ehxjsjd4553 27 күн бұрын

@@Anorak610 it will need it's own car lol

@buzznovo4779 5 ай бұрын

She's like "Omg look at this dumb thing I made" and it's the most masterfully crafted beautiful thing I have ever seen.

@SaraMorgan-ym6ue 5 ай бұрын

abomination!!!!

@catgirlQueer 4 ай бұрын

beautiful and dumb are not nearly mutually exclusive

@buzznovo4779 4 ай бұрын

@@catgirlQueer Probably not.

@TheStevesterX 6 ай бұрын

Am I the only one who thinks that Martina's at her best, and funniest, when she takes on projects that immediately makes her regret her life choices? 🤣

@juliacornejo7802 6 ай бұрын

I second that thought XD

@combatrock 6 ай бұрын

I've only been watching for maybe a year and I'm 90% sure Martina has said as much herself lol

@abracadabruh7420 5 ай бұрын

No, that's pretty accurate tbh

@seanrandall4954 5 ай бұрын

And she does it with enthusiasm it's great

@tomasrubioelia6912 5 ай бұрын

Yeah, we should make people regret their life choices more often

@jadetucker8681 4 ай бұрын

ive never heard of wheel of time but this dedication for a book series REALLY makes me want to check it out

@liesmazarina7578 4 ай бұрын

Just what I thought!

@asthenolith 4 ай бұрын

Same! It went straight to the TBR 😂

@rebekahhiggins9002 4 ай бұрын

They are fantastic books, but they are A COMITMENT. Just as a warning, not a lot happens in the middle books. There are so many characters with similar names that it can get hard to keep track of who is who. Rand will be really really annoying for a while and you will want to yell at him to go to therapy. But they're really really good. They are so worth it. My all time favorite series. However, if you don't like them after the first book or two, it might not be for you. That's okay. If you get to like book 7 and you're liking, just keep pushing through. There are a few books worth of minimal plot progression to get through (some of my favorite character development happens in these books though), and then it's right back to being fantastic.

@Tekzel 3 ай бұрын

@@rebekahhiggins9002I'm 1/4th of the way through the Warhammer 40k Horus Heresy books. I'm no stranger to commitments. Although I am more of a scifi than fantasy reader. I also recognize that the Warhammer 40k books are more fantasy than scifi.

@PapawMustard 2 ай бұрын

I've read basically every popular fantasy series, and WoT is easily my favorite. The length and detail is a turn off for some people, but it was one of my favorite things.

@juliusroman8616 5 ай бұрын

1:16 I love how Martina cuts herself off as she says "That's what she said-"

@mattybrunolucaszeneresalas9072 3 ай бұрын

@TrajceSpasovski-nq5dt 2 ай бұрын

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@Eliza_the_musicstan 2 ай бұрын

Ha! I did catch that 😂

@DonaldMerand 6 ай бұрын

I laughed so hard at the very end when Martina is calmly reading a page while holding up 20 kilos of book in one hand.

@brokencookie1 6 ай бұрын

And people claim nerds and bookworms are weak

@Elvyne 5 ай бұрын

@@brokencookie1Next time we're sending them this video

@adfasfuiuiui1056 Ай бұрын

wow you have really low standards for humor.

@ambergristones 6 ай бұрын

Brandon Sanderson immediately sending this to his publisher to expand his word count for his next book 😂

@jasminezed7839 6 ай бұрын

This is immediately who I thought of lol

@pclouds 6 ай бұрын

Oh no. The next Stormlight Archive book will be twice as thick, won't it?

@watcherofwatchers 6 ай бұрын

@@pcloudsOne can dream.

@InVerum 6 ай бұрын

Considering he ghost-wrote the last books in the series this is especially fitting.

@watcherofwatchers 6 ай бұрын

@@InVerum He didn't ghost write: he was fully credited for his work on the last 3 books, which was substantial.

@morganqorishchi8181 4 ай бұрын

I love even the cameraman having to stop and laugh at this. That's when you know your art is doing its' job: it's bringing you joy, him joy, the viewers joy, the gift recipient joy - you're basically like Santa but with books.

@-DerpyVR- Ай бұрын

Imagine losing your page in this book☠️

@1littlekitty_jr 13 күн бұрын

I’d be so mad, underrated comment btw

@ameagari__ 6 ай бұрын

i love the fantasy/historical side of youtube cause it takes extremely noble and traditionnal techniques to make the ✨silliest✨ things, while still being some of the coolest things we'll ever see. incredible!

@adfasfuiuiui1056 Ай бұрын

wow you think this is cool? you must have really low standards. smh

@malicious217 6 ай бұрын

I've got two daughters and I'm going to need to send you a video of them speaking into a tiny shovel saying "back to the project!" And "and now for the final result!" They love your show keep up the amazing-ness!

@MeriaDuck 6 ай бұрын

I now imagine the tiny shovel thing going viral and whole classes going 'aaaaaaaaand back to the project' 😂

@malicious217 6 ай бұрын

@@MeriaDuck that's kind of what I was thinking. Everyone sends in their own 'back to the project!'

@destructionindustries1987 6 ай бұрын

😂

@Qermaq 6 ай бұрын

Martina has trowel talent.

@draygontaygen677 6 ай бұрын

At least you know your daughters have a good youtuber influence. I hope they one day start creating great works. I'll say it in advance (I'm sorry for the mess)

@The4DRY4N 5 ай бұрын

i'm so glad youtube algorithm is pushing you guys' videos cause these are one of the most INSANE projects i've seen, and the end results are always so sick!! keep it up y'all

@adfasfuiuiui1056 Ай бұрын

this is such a dumb video and you're glad for it? smh

@AncientHydraGaming 4 ай бұрын

Okay I legit started having a deep emotional reaction when you started carving the leather design. This book series means A LOT to me as it was the series that reignited my love of reading in high school when Literature classes and book analysis papers had really spoiled the JOY of reading for me. The love you are show for this project just hits me RIGHT in the feels.

@lluisdemonermayans2157 6 ай бұрын

it makes me really happy knowing that Brander Sanderson is totally capable of seeing this and getting, in fact, super jealous

@tiagodagostini 5 ай бұрын

well the last book on that pile is HIS.

@WzrdPnda 5 ай бұрын

The last THREE are his.

@brianhayes2863 5 ай бұрын

He would likely be the first to line up to buy this if it was available to purchase.

@geraldeuton2419 5 ай бұрын

I hope someday when the stormlight archive is finished someone does this with those

@Topdoggie7 5 ай бұрын

Would he pay though?

@cm_psychic_reader 5 ай бұрын

She really dropped "I just photoshopped a thing and printed it out" super quickly and casually and it's the most high-fantasy, billion-hours-of-work-looking, *gorgeous* book insides. HOW???

@Artey86 5 ай бұрын

I also can't get over the talent that she so casually displays at every step of these projects. "Oh I just made this thing in photoshop quickly" (while something like that would be the full time job of any other person).

@secretlook9218 5 ай бұрын

yes it really looks lame

@nomoretwitterhandles 5 ай бұрын

I... what? "Billions of hours"? 😂 For that simple thing? It's gorgeous, don't get me wrong, but those book insides were very simple! It wouldn't have taken her more than 3 hours to have made it. Pretty much any professional could do the same in less than 3 hours. I've done similar in about 30 minutes, it's just basic design sense. Of course she'd be able to come up with something that clean and beautiful. I am a professional artist, and I can tell she has spent many years mastering her craft--it's no doubt she would be able to quickly make a simple book inside. If you asked a kindergartener who had never picked up a crayon before to come up with a book inside, it might take THEM a "billion" hours to make something like that, but literally anyone who has a level 1 art skill will be able to make something like that in no more than a few days (altogether). In a way, it's almost insulting to be shocked at something that easy to do. You think she spent countless hours creating all sorts of wonderful things for people to doubt her skill? Yeesh. I'm more impressed with the leather carving. That is something that can't be done quickly in Photoshop; it requires so much time to make. And you can't even fix mistakes either. It must've taken her so long to accomplish, and she did it well. Why be so baffled and confused over the most simple and common designs made when you could be impressed by the stuff she ACTUALLY spent a lot of time working on?

@nomoretwitterhandles 5 ай бұрын

@@Artey86 If you are an artist working a full time job as a graphic designer, you'd get fired for spending all day on something that simple. That's like saying "Wow this person cooked a cheeseburger at home in 10 minutes? That would take any professional chef several years to cook at their restaurant!!11!" Like, bro, that is their profession. They are going to be good at it.

@Teekll 5 ай бұрын

@@nomoretwitterhandleswell said.

@westube643 3 ай бұрын

Mom: You can only bring one book on the trip. Me:

@violetalesine1478 4 ай бұрын

Now this brings up the question, "How big would the book have to be for it to be a regular shaped book?"

@midnightbloomofeorzea7182 2 ай бұрын

Or how tiny the font lol

@dice8372 6 ай бұрын

The fact that she's smiling throughout all this tedious work tells you everything you need to know about this girl. What a talented pair of people! Every video of theirs make me happy

@eline8087 5 ай бұрын

I mean, she may have cut out the bits where she was crying and thoroughly questioning her life choices XD

@kahil101 6 ай бұрын

She finished making this faster than anyone has ever read this series 😂

@mabel1487 6 ай бұрын

😂 probably, I haven’t read it, i might but idk

@TheOriginalMasterOogway 6 ай бұрын

I mean obviously. No one's gonna read all those books in a couple days are they? That's just common sense

@cosmicknight9047 6 ай бұрын

I listened to the series at work 8hrs a day 4 days a week and it still took me a little over a month to read it all

@TheOriginalMasterOogway 6 ай бұрын

@@cosmicknight9047 exactly. Man's acting like it's a weekend activity 😂😂

@RockyPeroxide 6 ай бұрын

I can read 700wpm. If only I had an attention span, I'd take the challenge

@Saavik256 5 ай бұрын

As someone who used to work in a bookbinding department of a local printworks, the different sizes of book blocks (+/- 1mm or so) can happen for a variety of reasons. Most commonly it's different settings on the folding machines and the three-blade trimmers. Personally I'd go with aligning them on the spine and head of the block. That being said, the end result is absolutely insanely amazing :)

@creslinwest9243 5 ай бұрын

I have never been so happy, as soon as you said a youtuber who shall not be named... yet. And then when you told us you were shipping it overseas, I knew it was going to be Daniel. I am already subscribed to you both. Also loved that Daniel pointed out how Jordan basically promised the last book would be "one book" even if he had to invent his own binding system or ship it with a free library cart. It was hilarious when Sanderson basically said - yeah it's gonna have to be three books. And you just proved it could have been done??!??

@adfasfuiuiui1056 Ай бұрын

you need a medal for being a subscriber to both? smh

@creslinwest9243 28 күн бұрын

@@adfasfuiuiui1056 That's not what I said. I was just excited and happy. I'm not sure why you felt like you needed to comment. It just made me a little bit sad. For a moment, I was thinking "cool, a comment notification." Then I was brought down from that tiny little bit of joyous anticipation by your snarky and uncalled for comment. If that's what you were going for, achievement unlocked I guess. Congratulations

@Crousmouse 6 ай бұрын

If you make the two covers touch, you can read the book endlessly as a wheel for all of time.

@kellybraun7048 6 ай бұрын

I need to see if this is possible now.

@fredericapanon207 6 ай бұрын

@Crousmouse, I see what you did there...

@thatHARVguy 6 ай бұрын

Möbius book? They're Norse, so Book Serpent? 📖🐍

@oliverer3 6 ай бұрын

There are neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of the pages in the book of time.

@ReginaRegenbogn 6 ай бұрын

@@kellybraun7048 I think I saw the wheel done on Martina's Instagram!

@rfresa 5 ай бұрын

Missed photo opportunity: making the whole book into a circle by bending it all the way around so the covers touch! Thematically appropriate for this series, that would be the ultimate flex!

@theproducers1967 5 ай бұрын

Much harder to actually read though XD

@Klbkchhezeim 5 ай бұрын

@@theproducers1967 put it on a lazy susan

@greenapple9477 5 ай бұрын

A literal flex

@michaellazalde2406 2 ай бұрын

I love this because Robert Jordan’s original plan for the last 3 books was to have it as one giant book. This is awesome

@JustARandomLesbian 4 ай бұрын

Imagine one of the books were put in upside down.

@cacklebarnacle15 6 ай бұрын

My uni library has book scanners, that have a table that levels out the top pages, no matter how big the book and where you open it. I think it's kind of like a scale, where the heavier side of the book pushes the other side of the split table up enough to support the lighter side until the open pages are level. Maybe you can design a table like that for this monstrosity.

@aitanapalomanespardos7089 5 ай бұрын

Do you know the model of that book scanner?

@keiyakins 5 ай бұрын

but can it cope with this monstrosity?

@Well_Hello_There42 6 ай бұрын

This project is the definition of “If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing”

@ksilebo 5 ай бұрын

Putting the bookpress ontop of the books to press is just pure genious but also chaos

@death2foolz182 5 ай бұрын

Honestly... what an introduction to a new series lmfao. I hadn't heard of the series, but seeing the love put into this creation and how much daniel was clearly so happy to get it... I might just have a new series to pick up

@caret_shell 5 ай бұрын

He should have a lectern made that stores the book inside of it, with the two covers resting on a double-jack system. Then with a dial or a lever or something, the reader raises one jack and lowers the other in tandem, which allows the pages to turn forward or back while leaving the open page at a constant height. It could be a very snazzy way to actually read it.

@sarahmchugh4169 5 ай бұрын

That would be super cool

@kenzashenna 4 ай бұрын

Just like a stepper machine in the gym! 😂

@RocketChild 6 ай бұрын

I can imagine this being in a fantasy library on a set of scales, where the scales change weight as the book is read

@MartijnMcFly 5 ай бұрын

"How much did you read last night?" "Oh, I don't know, probably 2kg..."

@Cane4092 5 ай бұрын

@@MartijnMcFly”aw man i only read 10grams😢”

@iasked00 5 ай бұрын

⁠@@Cane4092”I read.. maybe 5kg? Im rea-“ *passes out*

@crimsonraen 4 ай бұрын

I've been staring at this in Daniel's videos for a while now, but I had no idea you made it! This is NUTS! It looks SO freakin' good, and seeing all the work you put into it, WOW!

@Dargonhuman 5 ай бұрын

As someone who is planning on making my own ridiculously oversized book soon, I actually learned a couple new tricks from this, so even though you think it's dumb (and okay, it kinda is, but you obviously had a ton of fun doing it so that makes it the best kind of dumb), the fact that it's not only doable, but the idea can be scaled down to fit other projects means it's still a useful idea.

@jennastephens1224 6 ай бұрын

It's so glorious! I love it so much. I'm just imagining at customs the agent seeing the very large, heavy, duct-taped box with the shipping manifest: 1 book and being like "Oh yeah, they're absolutley smuggling something" and then opening it and seeing that it is, in fact, 1 book

@kay12 6 ай бұрын

It is THE GREATEST honor to have this work of art in our home 🥰 Watching you make it adds a whole new level of appreciation and admiration. BIG HUGS 🧡🧡

@poonalex8008 6 ай бұрын

???

@poonalex8008 6 ай бұрын

Who are you?

@hesamui6250 6 ай бұрын

@@poonalex8008 that's Daniel's Partner.

@TerkanTyr 6 ай бұрын

@@poonalex8008 The extent to which you lack talent for even the most basic of deductions is frankly impressive.

@MultiArtStyleTWT 6 ай бұрын

@@poonalex8008 Daniel's partner, she was out of frame but you could hear her voice

@mala3isity 5 ай бұрын

5:41 Next project, the Reading Rack (tabletop version for now, podium later). Tilted back with doweled resting shelf allowed safe yet comfortable reading of the Elephantine Tome.

@mo2cubing 5 ай бұрын

22:37 Brandon Sanderson lives near here in Lincoln, Nebraska. He is such a cool author and our family members are big fans! I think one of them knows him but I forgor

@sigils 6 ай бұрын

This is perfection

@LTT853 6 ай бұрын

never expected for you to be here lol

@chantingfrog9943 5 ай бұрын

why are u here??

@Sirbeansandsoup 5 ай бұрын

Wait what

@fatalshot 5 ай бұрын

He is that Pokémon

@malakaisiketi124 5 ай бұрын

People surprised he is here, but he, himself, is a author. READ HIS BOOKS! PURCHASE HIS BOOKS!

@Reveliojelly 5 ай бұрын

This is the first nerdforge video I’ve ever watched and it’s filling my nerdy little heart with fuzzy feelings i live this so much

@jenn-k-h 5 ай бұрын

Same!! 😊

@ColorwaveCraftsCo 5 ай бұрын

Binge all their stuff. It’s fantastic

@user-ys3rl8ti7j 5 ай бұрын

same here! lol This is too relatable😊

@michellemah2674 5 ай бұрын

Same!!! As the video went on I just grew more and more in awe in all of their many talents!

@bonnieharris4538 5 ай бұрын

Seconded; anyone who does this will get addicted to Martina and Hansi's goofy creative have-a-go-at-anythingness!!@@ColorwaveCraftsCo

@skelehedron3070 3 ай бұрын

Honestly it's really funny how the Wheel of Time books take up an entire area of bookshelf in my house Also the audio books combined last 19 days

@TheRealMehrain 5 ай бұрын

I absolutely love the wheel of time and have read it once and listened to it twice. Kate Reading and Micheal Kramer are truely special narrators

@rebekahhiggins9002 4 ай бұрын

Truly fantastic! The audiobooks are an experince on their own.

@jcool0122 6 ай бұрын

This is, without a doubt, the coolest, most ridiculous project I've seen in a long time. If only the producers over at Prime had shown half as much care and reverence for those books.

@Zuraneve 6 ай бұрын

What the producers did to the books, especially to Mat, is a travesty. Though, if you haven't read the books, I'm told it's a pretty good show.

@jcool0122 6 ай бұрын

@@Zuraneve agreed. I couldn't finish the 1st episode.

@Zuraneve 6 ай бұрын

@@jcool0122 I've managed to make it to season 2 by barely paying attention to the show. You aren't missing anything except a bunch of dirty lies. Why have I been watching it? It was my partner's birthday last week (and my Prime account) and he hasn't read the books yet, so my present to him was watching together and only interjecting to explain some bit of lore since I don't trust the show to get it right. At least they did a decent job on visuals.

@pedroluiz8750 5 ай бұрын

@@Zuraneve"especially to Mat is a travesty" Tom enter the chat

@maggiem6209 5 ай бұрын

@Zuraneve Now I'm terrified. My Uncle showed me the whole show because he did read the books and I loved it. Now I'm thinking this will be another Eragon situation. 😢

@StephanePare 6 ай бұрын

I remember Jordan one day promising us the last book will be just one book, even if it needs to be delivered to people's homes with a forklift. He most likely made a whole other separate quote about the wheelbarrow, I need to hunt it down.

@Peregrine101 5 ай бұрын

That is also how I understood it. Sanderson started out to do as Jordan intended, but understood that you would need a proper wheelbarrow and the book would be unreadable. That's why it ended up in multiple volumes. Whenever I show a volume of the Wheel of time to anyone they are shocked how big the books are. The final volume would be gigantic when combined into one. Let alone the monstrosity that Martina build. But did I see it lacks the epilogue?

@trogdor8764 4 ай бұрын

I think the most impressive thing about this project is that it survived being shipped overseas without any packing material

@lexwolfhale1729 4 ай бұрын

The sheer volume of this series is the reason why I am optimg to read a digital copy of it, I don't have enough room in my bookcase for that number of chonky books xD

@baileykayeart8799 6 ай бұрын

i imagine someone seeing this on a shelf and being like oh cool art and them having to explain it’s actually a book

@A-Pinecone 6 ай бұрын

While it may be unsatisfying to have all of the books be slightly different sizes, I think that's a really cool part of it! You can clearly see where all the books start and end that way!

@marcelbpunkt 6 ай бұрын

Kinda like those little gaps in vinyl LP's between songs.

@someone-that-i-used-to-know 3 ай бұрын

Timmy: Are there any rules? Jorgan Von Strangle:

@scremmy_draws 3 ай бұрын

as an artist, i can't even IMAGINE going through all of this rigorous work, getting such a beautiful end product, and then not even keeping it

@krayzoman 5 ай бұрын

She made the Wheel of Time into a literal wheel. Utter madness, I love it.

@SaraMorgan-ym6ue 5 ай бұрын

see what happens when you have a bored girl with to much time on her hands this kind of thing plain and simple🤣🤣🤣

@NerdoftheRings 6 ай бұрын

This is amazing! 😂

@foat_productions 6 ай бұрын

Hey Nerd of the Rings ❤ Saw your tweet

@lonelyredgiant 5 ай бұрын

Lord of the rings is just good. Have no idea who you are at all but NERD of the rings just sounds amazing so I’ll subscribe anyways.

@JoJo-nt5hr 5 ай бұрын

love your channel too!

@saile6864 5 ай бұрын

Ikr

@davepowder4020 5 ай бұрын

Whaaaa? I get to fanboy for Nerdforge AND NerdoftheRings at the SAME TIME??? **faints**

@denizium. 3 ай бұрын

with the raw carved leather it already looked insane! but the paint added so much more dimension, this looks amazing!!

@magickmostevile2658 4 ай бұрын

My brother absolutely adores the Wheel of Time series! I only just borrowed the first book from him and already love it. The writing style reminds me almost of Toilken, but it is much easier to really absorb yourself into. I am definitely sending this video to him. I am sure he would be jealous of your monstrous yet glorious creation.

@dirtygurty4 5 ай бұрын

God, I hope Harriet McDougal and Brandon Sanderson get to see this absolute masterpiece!

@HelloThere13692 6 ай бұрын

Its so dumb i love it

@maddie2008 2 ай бұрын

My teacher told me i could only read and present one book for my end of the year book presentation because she knows that i read so many books that she only wants me to do one maybe i should do something like this it just might be creative enough that she would allow it

@Buster-Sharp 15 күн бұрын

7:21 OMG, the clock in the Timelapse was such a brilliant idea that works so well 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏

@Houndlock643 6 ай бұрын

Now this is interesting. An entire universe in just one book. And I was not disappointed in how unbelievably LARGE that book was.

@lilymichelee8129 6 ай бұрын

I was trying to figure out who in the world the series could be going to and right as you were packing it I was thinking "it couldn't be Daniel... could it??" and then it was. That was amazing!

@secretarts 5 ай бұрын

Back in the days of old(before 1990) We had catalogs locations that were made up of several clip-in books from different venders ( look up Tarifold Catalog rack) which would be impressive for what you did here. IE: make each book be on it's own clip-in that can be place on the larger base that can be closed up with your belt making the single book. You would have an amazing display stand and a larger surface for the art of the binding and covers. But hey I am just a nerd who has worked a long long time, who loves to help great artist with their crafting.

@maplebitmap220 2 ай бұрын

This is actually a cool as heck idea! Like kinda impractical for reading it but it makes an awesome house piece as a functional decoration! I can think of an adjustable device table that would make reading this comfortably possibly though.

@tHe0nLyNeXuS 6 ай бұрын

Bookmakers since ancient times: "Huh... too big of a book is quite unwieldy, let's make volumes!" Martina: "... Nah!" 🤣 BTW... it is just awesome!

@leonardomacleod 6 ай бұрын

The only part that I felt a pain in my heart (hehe) was when Martina removed the covers, but the end result was amazing.

@rosenracht 5 ай бұрын

You did such a good job!! I'm excited to check the series. I've been wanting to read it for awhile now, and this just gave me the push I needed!!!

@margodphd 4 ай бұрын

I'm going to need this kind of cover for my lecture notes by the time I'm finished with my medical degree. "Medicine: The textbook". Imagine one could make a faux, preferably silicone miniature "anatomical pathologies" attached to the cover...

@FeaturingRob 6 ай бұрын

The moment Martina said she was mailing it to a specific KZfaqr, I KNEW it was going to Daniel Greene!!! Even before seeing that they listed his name in the section below the video!!! I loved this! Excellent job!

@kennpeters1973 6 ай бұрын

I had the same reaction. KZfaqr. Gotta be a book guy. Wheel of Time. There was no other possibility. And very cool to find out two channels I enjoy so much know each other.

@jasonschuler2256 6 ай бұрын

@@paulwoodford1984 Why would a tv show adaptation change his opinion about the books at all? Amazon didn't go back in time and change Jordan's work.

@paulwalley8296 6 ай бұрын

Imagine the artwork you could do on the edges of the book to go along with your beautiful cover.

@Black-March 5 ай бұрын

You could've evened out the page sizes with a belt sander. Actually works really well on paper when it's stacked.

@pewpewpandas9203 4 ай бұрын

The book should have come with a mini car jack so that you can raise and lower each cover as needed

@chaosmensch9544 5 ай бұрын

hello professional bookbinder here :D I must say sure there are things I would do diffenrently if I would bind a book (esp. concidering durability) but most of the time when you make bookbinding projects i get inspired. inspired to venture out in my own feeld and try something new and not be afraid of just doing. so thank you for that and keep up totally insane book projects! i'm rly looking forward to them🤗

@SatanHerself666 6 ай бұрын

My brain just absolutely loves making horrible scenarios. Imagine spending all that time making this and realizing only AFTER it is shipped out that the books were out of order. That would be pure horror. Also I died so many times watching this laughing so now my throat hurts even more. Curse the sick. I LOVE THE CHAOS.

@samuelleask1132 5 ай бұрын

Hahahaha

@recidivist26 3 ай бұрын

The whole time I couldn’t help but think that New Spring (book 0, aka the prequel) was missing! Besides that, perfection.

@DavidLindes 5 ай бұрын

This is... amazing, Martina (and I think I saw Hansi in there a bit, too). Truly epic. My only thought is that now it needs a bespoke reading stand, with two platforms attached on linear rails (or similar bearing structures) to a center column with a round top, and some aircraft cable (or other low-stretch "string"-like something) set at just the right length to keep the platforms always the right distance to support the two ends. :)

@kayleighpaxton9713 4 ай бұрын

It’s always so fun so to see some of your favorite creators and topics collide in the real world! I’ve not been on KZfaq much recently, and so I didn’t see this until Daniel posted about it, and when he mentioned you guys made it for him, I like “WAIT BUT THEY’RE MY FAV FANTASY CRAFTING CHANNEL, YOU KNOW THEM TOO?” 😂 Of course in the world of fantasy inclined creators, the best would know the best! And I had no idea you guys were also WoT fans! Like Daniel said, this is a creation RJ himself would cherish. And I wish I could see Sanderson and Harriet’s reactions! Truly, WoT fans all across the world would spend an exorbitant amount of money to add this to their shelves (me included)! I cannot say enough how STUNNING this project turned out! Possibly my favorite project of yours ever!

@jellejoustra4024 5 ай бұрын

Never heard of the wheel of time, never been interested in the proces of making a book. There’s still absolutely no denying all of the immense effort and expertise that went into this.

@daysleeper1989 6 ай бұрын

I was genuinely thinking that Daniel was going to be so jealous watching this so I'm delighted to know that this was just simply the perfect crossover

@MarkFonts 5 ай бұрын

I’m curious how you didnt think to re-cut all the book blocks to become the same size before gluing or after gluing! this is what printing press guillotines are used for and why thicc books have so much bleed (and printed contents don’t match much between different signatures). I did production on a bible that had 4-color graphics throughout and it needed a quarter inch bleed because the far edge varied in horizontally so much between the beginning/end of the bible and its middle.

@johncroncejr6156 4 ай бұрын

I got linked to this video from a Reddit post joking about making a Stormlight Archive omnibus like this when the serious ended. This is better than I could have imagined! Never saw your stuff before but you have a new fan. And seeing Daniel Greene as the surprise KZfaqr this got sent to was an added bonus I wasn't expecting 😂

@ColorwaveCraftsCo 5 ай бұрын

I ❤ the fact that you came up with this ridiculous idea and still made a polished and professional-looking finished product out of it. This channel is just plain amazing.

@HeisenbergFam 6 ай бұрын

She is casually making modern art at this point

@KaiseroftheBlade 6 ай бұрын

HE IS BACK! HE DISAPPEARED BUT HE IS BACK!

@ganymede4030 6 ай бұрын

@@KaiseroftheBladeYou know when you see those it's not always the same person? It's multiple people using the same display name, haha.

@KaiseroftheBlade 6 ай бұрын

@@ganymede4030 It’s the same account, and that’s good enough for me

@reveriemephisto1995 4 ай бұрын

I think my filmmaking class brought up the Wheel of Time when someone who was visiting to lecture brought up how the director of the series screwed up the aesthetics of the Wheel itself, completely disregarding the people's wishes whom they had bought the rights from to make the series. I wish Robert could have seen this bookbind. I'm sure he would have loved it!

@jcwdesigns82 4 ай бұрын

I spent the whole video enthralled so much by the project and the techniques that I didn't even notice her set. What the hell?!? The jealous awe of what has been made here is off the charts.

@Obnoxious_twig 6 ай бұрын

I love when artists take an outrageous idea and execute it so well this is amazing

@samanthadean1083 5 ай бұрын

This is awesome, yet strange at the same time… Kinda reminds me of how JRR Tolkien actually wanted to release The Lord of the Rings as a single book, but his publisher decided to split the book into 3 books… Fantastic job!!! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻❤️❤️❤️

@BooDevil65 2 ай бұрын

You are my kind of crazy! I always say "I just want to peek at the video to see the amazing result" ... but I can't look away. A testament to you, your videographer, and your editor - they only add to the experience and deserve a lot of credit. BTW the fact that a beautiful box that would be a whole project video on any other channel is just a 5 second afterthought here is a statement itself! PS you did include an index, right? :)

@HeathBlythe 3 ай бұрын

It's incredible how creativity and being able to make things with your own hands is so attractive.

@donngu 5 ай бұрын

Nerdforge and Mark Rober are like the art and science teachers at Hogwarts.

@thedarkbard 4 ай бұрын

The collab we all need. I didn’t realize how much of a similar energy the two gave

@donngu 4 ай бұрын

@@thedarkbard that would be sweet.

@Sourduckbitterdime 5 ай бұрын

I would normally not support the destroying of book covers but she turns all of their projects into a masterpiece.

@TheJohnDorn 5 ай бұрын

Yeah at first I was aghast at seeing those books taken apart, but by the end I want that on my bookshelf and I don't care how practical it is.

@TheJohnDorn 5 ай бұрын

My shelves aren't even wide enough. I'd have to build an entirely new shelf for it and would without question.

@TrekBeatTK 5 ай бұрын

Nope, I still can’t get over it. This same thing could have been achieved with trade paperbacks. I have a very hard time with making things by destroying other things.

@sylvy16 5 ай бұрын

@@TrekBeatTKthat still does involve removing the covers tho. also like the device you are using to make this comment was made by breaking rocks and melting metal and literally everything you have or interact with is made by destroying other things, unless you just live in a forest.

@TechnoEsoterica 5 ай бұрын

@@sylvy16 100% Also a book is not the cover it's bound in and old books are often rebound over the years. The work is the writing and the writing isn't destroyed.

@aprildegele1510 4 ай бұрын

Ratchet straps are exactly what I would have used. Useful hint: it would have been easier had you laid it on it's side to strap it. You are nuts and I love it! As soon as I saw the thumbnail, I also thought "slinky". Great minds. I absolutely love that you sewed the binding. That belt idea is perfect. You had me cracking up the whole time. I'm really, really impressed at your skills in, well, just about everything. I love your creativity, your authenticity, your spirit ... what the hell, you're just a total JOY!

@martinstuvland8620 5 ай бұрын

Wth?! Didn't know there were Norwegian YT this big! :D Skjera bagera? Ingenting tingeling! Edit: You fucking glued together the whole of wheel of time series?! That's fucking hilarious 😂 Never read it. But my brother has. And I'm aware how chonkin thicc it is!! 🤣 Edit 2: The amount of effort and time.......wat?!?! I mean like....wat!!!! My jaw is literally dropped. This is such a high scale project! I'm dumbstruck by the effort, time, skill, love and passion that went into this!!! Outstanding! Fuck this. I'm subscribing! Never heard of you before this video. But the sheer scale of passion, quirkiness, talent, weirdness, authenticity and raw glee in this video alone is worth it! You guys seem like great people to have a beer with!!!

@LunaMail 5 ай бұрын

*BOOK SLINKY* You are incredible! The ratcheting straps were such a brilliant solution. Perhaps this is the video that has inspired me to revisit bookbinding. 😅 I love the contagious laughter throughout!

@McTroyd 6 ай бұрын

This needs, like, a rotating cantilevered shelf specifically designed to both display it and read it. Such an amazing piece of work (not that I expected less)! 👍

@pattheplanter 5 ай бұрын

You mean, the lectern needs to be a wheel? If so, it needs an hourglass built in.

@beatriztauro7930 4 ай бұрын

my fav part of this is DEFINETLY the laugh you guys did when saw the bend for the first time its so amazing

@sondrarichards8120 29 күн бұрын

I love this and my husband is a huge Wheel of Time fan and i am tempted to make my own version of this for him at some point in the future. I do have a thought for something you could have attempted when the book blocks were not all the exact same size. You could have tried to sand the sides the best you could to even them out. It's more important to line up the spines more than anything. This still turned out amazing and glad the receiver loved it.