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Old 05-15-2007, 03:34 PM   #1
Cpt. Tim
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Hardcover home brew.

I'm sure i'm not the only one to think of this but i thought i'd post a easy way to make a harcover book cover.

You'll need:
1. A hardcover book about the size of the reader.
2. Glue
3. Felt.
4. Velcro strips.
5. Exacto knife.

You basically gut the original book. I try to find nice hardcovers whose content is otherwise worthless to me. One was a hopelessly out of date book on physics, another was a book on drain and piping prices, another was an old management style series, Basically i try to pick things people aren't going to miss.

Gutting the book is easy, a swipe both sides where the inside paper meets the binding takes care of that. Then remove the contents.

Cut a square of felt matching the inside front covers size, and glue the felt square in, this is to protect the screen from scratching.

Place two velcro strips on the inside back cover of your book, as well as down the back of the reader. I put the fuzzy strips on the reader itself so i can take the reader out and hold it by itself and have the texture of it not be distracting. Also the velcro strips can be removed from the reader with eaze and any residue from the sticky strip simply wiped off later.

This way you can have any number of custom covers that you can swap out any time you see it. Cheap and easy.

Last edited by Cpt. Tim; 05-16-2007 at 12:01 PM.
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