Tips: Remember to double check that you didn't lose any formatting when copying over: italics, different fonts, page breaks. If you want to avoid page trimming, measure what paper you have (should be 8 1/2" by 11") and look for books where the pages are around 5 1/2" by 8 1/2" (the big page folded in half). If you're using Word to add page numbers, check under Headers & Footers for an option called "Different Odd & Even Pages." If you check that box, you can make your odd pages have numbers on the bottom right and your even pages have numbers on the bottom left, so they'll always be in the outside corner (always good to double check with a test page or two). Addition to the last point: There should be a way to break your book into two sections: One for the title page and table of contents, and one for the rest of the book. If you do it correctly, you can have page numbers -start- at chapter 1, instead of the book plate. I do need to google this step every time though, as it's complicated. Control+f Is your friend! I use it to double check that the work is consistent (Nick names being capitalized, "six-year-old" being always hyphenated or never, redhead being always one word or always two, etc.) If you feel up to it, go ahead and do a run of editing over the work. I'm doing minimal changes; basically fixing typos I find and altering sentences that read weird to me. If you do not fear embarrassment, see if your school has free printing. I try to print only 20 pages at a time, so it doesn't look like I'm pirating a textbook or anything.

"I mean, I knew this fic was 80 thousand words but-" Me, slowly closing the tab with the 500K+ word fic I was contemplating to print: oh

imagine a full library full of nothing but fanfic

The font she used for the title ''Bones in the ocean'' is called Castellar, in case someone needs it!!

Imagine getting your friend a hardcover of their favourite fanfic for their birthday. Imagine your friend getting you a hardcover of your favourite fanfic for your birthday.

Imagine someone one day in the future finding this in a thrift store and thinking “wow! This book is so old and interesting!” And they find out it’s a fanfic about minecraft block people but pirates. I love it.

The thought of physically holding a fan fiction that I love makes my tiny little lizard brain vibrate 😩

i turned a fanfic called 'More Like You' into a hardcover book as a gift for a friend and used a handmade cover with my art for the fanfic, my friend told the fanfic author about it. And the author loved it so much they commissioned me to design the cover for their original book! I wanted to come back and thankyou. It because of this video that i stumbled upon on a random day that these chain of events happened. Thank you so much @Jess Less

I desperately need to do this with all of my AO3 bookmarks. I also think it'd be cool to combine a bunch of one-shots from the same fandom into one book - so it's a sort of collection of "short stories."

Alright, who's brave enough to turn "My Immortal" into a book?

Any time a person says fanfic is bad just remember. Ullyses by James Joyce is a fanfic of the odyssey, Song of Achilles is a fanfic of the Illiad, interview with a vampire is a fanfic of Dracula, and the Arthurian legend is just a ridiculously long fanfic of the original story.

Man, if someone did this for my fanfic, my life would be complete. There is no reward that money can buy that could top this. The dedication it takes to do this project for the love of someone else's story is insane. The real MVPs are the fans that read these works and this is the reason why we write. And I think I can speak on behalf of others who write that If we can just make one person's day better by tapping into their imagination, it makes everything all worthwhile. Congrats to the fellow who had their story enshrined in physical history.

I watched this and immediately begged my dad to take me to a second hand bookstore. The whole trip I was like “I’m gonna tear this book apart~” Two days of formatting and one day of folding and I’m almost done!! I’ve got some glueing left but by the end of today I hope to have a hardcover copy of Several Witches Are Typing by azhdarchidaen! It’s an Owl House fic and it’s reallyreallyreallyreally good!!!

I've been thinking about doing this with Passerine but I didn't know where to get started, Jess my saviour 🙌

This can be an Etsy thing, I would literally pay people to make hardcover copies of my favorite fanfictions.

I just found out my comfort fanfic, that i've read at least 15 times so far, has nearly 400k (398 842 to be exact) words thanks to this video and I am shooketh. edit: it is also nowhere near finished

My mother works in a library where she repairs books. Sometimes, the books are so old that they go to be recycled to be made into new books. But this time ahahah she saved me the hardcover shells of four (4) books. It is time for me to print out that PremingerxOC fanfic ahaha.

a few years ago I looked into "where can I get a book printed online" but realized having a 900k fic printed at an online store is a a pain in the ass so I gave up, never considered actually binding it myself....now I might give that a try some time HMMM

This is amazing because now you can read fanfics in public without judgement 😩

If you don't want to tear apart an old book there's a great video by sea lemon on how to make a hard book cover! And nerdforge have a lot of videos showing how to make the cover look more vintage. It will take more effort but I'm putting this here in hopes people who feel very uncomfortable with using actual old books (like myself) will see!! hope it helps

Some of my favourite DSMP (mainly sbi) fics: - Tommyinnit’s Clinic for Supervillians by bonesandthebees (finished) - Ours Poetica by Zeeskeit (unfinished) - This is Not an Act of Spite by Alex_Wants_To_Die and ellabellachicketychella (unfinished) - Hush Now (You Were Lost but Now You’re Found) by CorpseArt (unfinished) Also I would recommend basically all of bonesandthebees fics, their writing style is so nice and fluid!

I've been binding fanfic for years now, I have well over 200 different fanfics of varying sizes, and some with multiple volumes too. And I'm so glad to see other fans doing this as well! Thanks Jess for adding more fans to this niche craft! I cant wait to see what you do next :D

This has given me a perfect idea for my best friend's birthday present. They're a fanfic writer and artist but mostly write one-shots, this makes me want to make a hardcover collection of their fics for them

Tips: (I love this so much and wanted to add some additional advice as someone who professionally learned bookbinding as well as editing! :)) 1. I'd personally run chunks of the text or the thing as a whole through a spelling program or re-read it and fix spelling mistakes just because I'm a perfectionist and not only want to honour the work but also do it justice to spell it the way it was meant to :) 2. I would set the text to full justification with the last row adjusted to the left, remove AO3's blank lines (which make sense for digital paragraphs) and instead create the analogue paragraph indentations. This would also save lots of paper. It does work best in InDesign for sure, which is what I'm working with and I know that non-professionals might struggle with these adjustments, I just wanted to recommend them anyway, because most of these are doable in word too! :) 3. I'd use a thinner thread so as not create large gaps between pages in the inner book, I think the thicker one totally works in this case though for the aesthetic! 4. Usually for a high quality hardcover bookbinders will add a piece of colourful fabric that is glued to the back of the inner book. It can be just at the top and bottom or all the way through. If there's supposed to be a bookmark this can simply be glued underneath that. (I sadly can't find the proper vocabulary to name these things in english cause it's not my first language) With the added fabric this makes for a more neat look when opening a hardcover, since the inner spine might get exposed and the fabric covers that up! 5. I'd account for additonal page length and cut the entire inner book with an electrical paper cutter after finishing to make the entire thing smooth. I don't know about your country but in mine we have access to these in copy-shops. This would also enable fore-edge painting!

As soon as “This is Not an Act of Spite” is finished it is becoming a book, thank you for the tutorial!

One day I just want a shelf on my fanfic like this so when someone comes over I can just see the confusion in their face when they open a book to see myct fight dragons for like 100 chapters-

Turning a Fanfiction into a physical book, this girl is a genius! Why did I never think about it before?

Girl my current fav fic is over 100 000 words and it's not even finished yet, I'm low-key considering turning it into a book now

NOW. WHO IS BRAVE ENOUGH TO TURN PASSERINE INTO A BOOK?! (Just imagine someone walks into your house and sees a bookshelf just full of fanfics)

I have this fanfiction that I've been meaning to turn into a book- It called "Drinks in new york city" in Ao3 AND HOLY HELL IS IT A MASTSRPIECE- I 100% recommend it if you want to read more heartbreaking fics besides Passerine! Btw, Thanks for the great tutorial Jess! I've been meaning to try doing this as project. Real helpful :]

I have already made a list of about 20 fanfics and planned an area to put a bookshelf for them. Now to convince my parents to let me do this- 😂

Tommyinnit's Clinic for Supervillians and Tommyinnit's Unbeatable Method of Avoiding Sudden Death are both really good! I could go on and on about over 100 fics that I have read and love in the MCYT community but then I would be here for hours so I'm just gonna leave you with those two absolutely iconic fics.

Wow that's really cool ! If you are looking for some reading, I recommend "Change fate by being aggressively kind" by sircantus on ao3, where it is literally Philza who adopts "monsters of the apocalypse" turning out to be the rest of the sbi, as per usual. And also "Fanmail to an Immortal" by PiperTheViper also on ao3. This fic is not finished and "quite" short for the moment, but it makes me laugh so here it is. And finally, "RacoonInnit is Pog at Villainy" by AJ_the_BreadKing on ao3, which is a complete story and just exceptionally funny :D

I’m doing this with My Immortal (yes, THAT ONE). Since I can’t kill a book, I’ll be making the hardcover!

I have a little trick for if you want to create a very old looking book, maybe even going towards a wheathered kinda treasure-mappy way (if you know what kinda look I mean lol): Just use cold coffee and spill a tiny amount on every page, dap it off with a kitchen towel and let it dry. It's gonna "wrinkle" a bit, you can leave it like this or press it down. When you want the discolouring to be fainter, mix the coffee with water and dillute it down a bit. You can propably build the colour up a tiny bit too by doing this twice for example, so if you're unsure about the amount of water you want to use, then put a bit more in and maybe do this a second time if it's fainter than you want it to be. I wouldn't do that process more times than that though. And remember to always let the pages first dry completely before continuing!

i didn't know someone could be so cultivated to make a video about this fine art of, not just fanfiction but binding the old art of fanficiton.

What’s so good about AO3 is that you can really bookmark the gems. “The Changeling” by Annerb is my favourite in the Harry Potter community

My two all time favorite fanfics are “passerine” and “flowers from 1970” both of them made me cry 😬

I love how perfectly you summarized fanfiction.

I'm not an avid fanfic reader, however it's really cool to hear that there's genuinely good stories that aren't just smut. Super nice seeing them get printed with the aesthetic in mind too!

17:32 (Salesman voice) “Now you too can read fan fiction in public & claim to be reading a thrilling novel from the 1800s!”

The only fanfic I've listened to is Passerine. If there's an audio book of this one I think I'll check it out too. Seriously cool to be bringing these works of art to life!

✨ recommendations ✨ (all mcyt and on AO3) 1. ‘the stars and their children’ by ‘bonesandthebees (bonesandcacti)’. (Royal galaxy AU) 2. Literally any other bunflower or bonesandthebees fic 😂 3. ‘His Curse of Binding’ by an orphan account. I especially recommend this one for making into a book, because. You know. Curse of binding. Book binding! (Greek mythology AU) 4. ‘Shells in the Foam’ by ‘Cedarwhisp21’. Hermit!Tommy AU. 5. ‘One More Step Out of the Pit’ by ‘AdrianaintheSnow’. Vigilante!Tommy AU. 6. ‘icing those hurts’ by ‘Drhair76’, ‘plantform’. Ice skater!Tommy AU. 7. ‘The Multiplayers’ by ‘CalistaWon’. Where Tubbo, Tommy, and Ranboo start an anonymous band. 8. ‘a cry that you hear at night’ by ‘shutupanakin’. WARNING: THIS IS PRETTY DARK. Wilbur gets possessed by a Bad Thing and Tommy HAS TO KEEP THE DOOR CLOSED. 9. ‘today, i coded it so everyone is trans-‘ by ‘nitpick7’, ‘SamtheBeta’. Hilarious trans!everyone chatfic! 10. ‘holding onto nothing’ by ‘remrose’. Where Technoblade basically gets adopted into Wilbur’s family.

I turned "Not easily conquered" into a book! It's a trilogy, so I made three books and I'm in love with them 😭😭 I've loved this fic for years and it's amazing to read it in print, and knowing that I made it myself makes it even better (I even like the mistakes I made along the way lol). Thank you for this video! ❤❤

If I were to do this with every fanfic I love, I'd have an entire libraries' worth of fics

With the recent news, I imagine this is going to be a very precious book for anyone lucky enough to get it. :(

This is amazing. Maybe one day I will have my own bookshelf just full of fanfictions.

Thank you so much ! I have so many fics I want to book bind like this so I can add them to my library. These stories deserve that much!

When you make it into a book, you can see just how many pages they are. It's astonishing just how much love and time fanfic writers put into work. I'm always so grateful that they provide quality books that could have won prizes to read for free.

Me: yeah I’m going to do that with flowers from the 1970’s Also me: * realises that I have exams in three weeks * Nevermind I’ll do that during summerbreak Thank you so much for the amazing video and project. Your Karl Jacobs memory book tutorial really helped me to finish the cosplay. I want to thank you for the amazing content you give us!!!

I have a fanfic I want to do this with but it’s not finished yet, time to watch this over and over again until it’s finished

This made me soooo happy!!! So satisfying (and informational!) to watch! I love that there's more than one day to bring a book into physical being. Thank you!

Oh! What about "Tommyinnit's Clinic for Supervillains" I'm listening to a read of it and it's amazing!! Highly recommend!

A nicely done tutorial for DIY bookbinding. A couple of tips for you: Elmer's "school glue" is PVA glue. Also, when doing the pressing of the signatures, a low to medium clothing iron can do in a matter of moments what a can of fruit salad can't do in 8 hours. Optionally, you could add a ribbon for a book marker glued to the spine of the signatures before setting the cover.

This video was just so interesting, for real! Thank you for that!

I literally love you. I have been trying to print a fan fiction for about two weeks and could not for the life of me figure out how to print it. You are a blessing you have saved Christmas. Thank you.

I would love to do this with Tommyinnit's Clinic for Supervillians by bonesandthebees. It's one of, if not, the best fanfics I've ever read. If anyone out there is looking for dsmp or superhero content, or just likes stories that have a way of questioning or flipping moral dilemmas on their heads, I would highly recommend!

Some of my favorite and recommended dsmp fics (mostly tommy-centric and sbi): - Into the Night by Interjection - Passerine by thcscus / blujama - His Curse of Binding by bari_astralis - Blood Magic by Amilia_Farem - Black Bird Fly by MolyPollyKinz - three months of letters by IDONTWRITELEMONS (wedontwritelemons) - TommyInnit's unbeatable method of avoiding sudden death by eneli - tommyinnit's clinic for supervillains by bonesandthebees - Ad Astra and De Terra by Hellenite - oh dear, can you see me? by findingkairos - Hush Now (You Were Lost but Now You’re Found) by CorpseArt - We've taken different paths but I know we'll always end up on the same one by Alexander_Wesker i find a lot of them as hidden gems

This is amazing!! Thanks for sharing!

I love your energy! This video is exactly what I was looking for.

Pls do Passerine, it’s literally good enough to be passed off as actual literature

The fact that people can write enough of one story to make a full book amazes me

This was sooooooo helpful! Thank you so much! ❤

Wow! I’m totally going to do this! Thank you so much for the tutorial!

Bones deserves to be an actual book form, I love that fic so much

"All the young dudes" definitely deserves all the hype it's been getting recently, definitely my favourite fanfiction. other than that "Ukiyo" by Sharleena and "The Brightest Stars Shine Here" by strawberrysummers.

omfg this is everything thank you so much I've been wanting to have a few fanfics close to my heart in physical form. I could just never figure out the proper formatting asldkjlk you're the best!

Honestly this tutorial has been a lifesaver. Thank you!!!

Okay, but we need to honor heatwaves as the legend it is. The fic literally broke Ao3; it deserves a hardcover.

"What fanfictions deserve to be a hardcover book?" Flowers from 1970. Is this even a question?

Thank you so much for this! I was able to find tutorials for the actual book binding, but not how to format the dang pages. This was incredibly helpful for figuring out how to set up my pages.

Hoo boy thank you for the new fic to add to my list and a whole heap of creative inspiration

Can you imagine having your favorite fanfic in physical form…?!?! You can smell it, feel it, you can annotate it!!! A genius idea, Thank you for this.

Jess, I think that the thumbnail should not have been changed, why? Because it feels like doing so, people are "deleting" him from the fandom if I can put it that way. I understand that people might be doing that out of respect for his family or others still grieving, but it feels wrong? He's worked so hard to get where he is right now and I think that removing him from videos and such is simply erasing his memory. I don't want that to happen and I don't think others would either. I'm not hating on you. I'm simply stating my feelings toward the thumbnail change. Thank you for reading this whole comment and if anyone reading this disagrees, please express it respectfully, I don't want this comment to be the source of a comment war.

Thank you! I’ve been reading my favorite fanfiction over and over for the past 5 years! Im so obsessed with it, I want to make it into a paperback

ok but this is amazing, thank you so much for sharing the process! :)

One of my favorite fanfics, Symphonious Solitude on Ao3, is about Fundy escaping the DSMP and finding a home in Hermitcraft, I am still reading it, and its already one of my favorites ^^

You could try this with Passerine next time! :"D

Thank you so much for this video it is the entire reason I was able to type out an entire screenplay and turn it into a book for my friends birthday.

literally thank you SO MUCH! i've been having an issue with page design and you helped me solve it so THANKS!! I would have gone mad if i didn't fix it soon so just yeah tysm!!!

Me at past: I'm going to translate "Bones in the ocean" on my native language just because there are no translation Also me: you know what? I will make an entire translated book >:)

Passarine is amazing. If you ship Dnf, Flowers from 1970 if just **chefs kiss** but sad. There is also a really nice finished SBI one called “pleasing a storm” on Wattpad, it’s amazing.

this is so awesome, thank you!!

Thank you so much!!! Was searching for ages for actual proper instructions. Im looking forward to doing this now #excited

I would totally turn "Ad Astra" (by Hellenite on AO3) into a book but I have absolutely no time, lol.

Okay, this is COOL AS CRAP. Not me freaking out over my favorite fic and Wolfy's art printed in color and how flipping cool the cover is. Everything about this is amazing and I'd love to do it myself, hopefully with some of my own writing someday?? Which also means I'll need to actually write so I'd better get doing that more consistently *nervous laughter* but AMAZING JOB

this is one of the best things i've ever seen, going to try this asap

Thank you! I always wanted to do that, but never knew how to print the pages in the right order. So now i can finally bind my favorite books!

Passerine on Ao3. It’s amazing and sad. That, or Butterfly Reign. Or Tommyinnit’s clinic for supervillains. They are my favourites and are also really popular.

When i heard the word pirate techno, i cried its only been a few hour since the news he passed…may our king Rest In Peace

THIS IS THE BOOK BINDING TUTORIAL I HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR OMGGG!!! (binding my favorite fics is exactly the reason why I wanted to learn to bind!!!) THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU❤❤❤

That cork board and thumbtack tip is really neat, thank you

As a Fanfiction writer myself, this is something amazing, this brings our stories to life more so then how we first thought would go, and this is also inspires me to maybe do this with some of my own stories as well

SO PROUD OF YOU AND YOUR PROGRESS JESS!!! Also, if you haven’t read it, “the little children raise their open filthy palms” by thanotaphobia (blue000jay) is a good SBI Zombie AU on AO3. Obviously Passerine by Thcscus is also incredible and I’ve been meaning to make that one into a hardcover so this will be a great tutorial for starting that project!

Thank you for this! I didnt even think about this for writing my own fanfic. I’ve got a new goal in mind now when I finish it!

I have been searching for a good tutorial on binding because I wanna try it, and I absolutely think yours was probably the most helpful and fun to watch!

13:38 that mid video rant... that is truth and we do write because we love our favourite characters (a little too much in some cases) and go on to write like what an eternal fic about it! As someone who is going through it myself, with writing something I never thought I'd write... (yes a literal book.. :) ) I really appreciate people like this in the fandom culture! You go Jess!

It's almost 4 am, and all I want to do now is turn my favorite fanfiction's into books! 🤣 lol I love your video and how easily you explain the process. I'm definitely going to try this! 💖

Quick remark and tips for making a fanfic book look as professional as possible: 1. Often in published books, chapter titles (or story titles for a collection of written pieces) are set on uneven page number (1-3-177 etc.) which results in the title being on the right side of when reading. 2. You can Google which font are commonly used in books. There’s Time new Roman, Gamond, Palatino or Georgia etc. 3. Indented paragraphs for me is a must. It makes everything more readable, coupled with the paragraph spacing. 4. About pages being upside down when printed: Idk if it’s my computer, the printer I’m using or Adobe Reader but when I print tested the first booklet of the fic I wanted to bookbinding, all the back side of the pages are upside down. I tried changing the settings on Adobe but nothing works and I can’t access the printer settings so what I did is download a pdf reader app from Apple Store (I’m on Mac) I hope it will fix the issue.

This was so cool! I really wanna bind Ad Astra and De Terra, both by Hellenite, but the word count is very daunting and idk if I can fit the both of them in one book lol