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Originally Posted by whitearrow
If you decide to make more and sell them, please get in touch!
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This is a possibility, but a remote one. I contacted today the US office of the Florence, Italy leather craft company that makes the Leonardo Address Book (it took some searching to find them!). I'm trying to make a deal to buy sets of the unassembled spine and left and right covers, which would eliminate major elements of the work required, and I hope dramatically lower the costs. The rep said the company has refused such proposals in the past, but she was not familiar with the Kindle and said that photographs of the finished case might be persuasive. I've emailed those to her.
I'm also trying to find a wholesale source for the Kindle 2 hinge, but so far that has proved futile.
In the meantime, for anyone interested in this project, late last night I found a less expensive source for the Leonardo Address book: Strawberry Hill,
http://www.strawberryhillhome.com/022-04.html They sell it for $105, $50 less than Jenni Bick Bookbinding.