
Books: How they're made and how your brain reads them
Brains On! Science podcast for kids
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How to Make a Signature on a 16 Page Book
The pages are placed out of order on the big sheet because once that sheet is folded down, those pages will all of sudden be placed in the correct order. Most books aren't just 16 pages. You might have 10 forms of 16 pages or 10 sets of 16 page signatures. The next step is to bind those together to make the book. Sometimes this is done with glue. That's called perfect bound.
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