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Serious question, I heard a binder at a meetup in Cincinnati say 'a perfect binding is a failed binding' and it's been bugging me for a week.
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stella1116mo ago
Heard that phrase before and it's mostly gatekeeping nonsense. A perfect binding just means the adhesive and paper worked together exactly as planned. Focus on whether your book feels solid in the hand and lies flat, not on some abstract idea of failure.
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torres.riley6mo ago
Honestly that sounds like someone trying way too hard to be deep. My bindings are always a little janky, so I guess by that logic they're all perfect.
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emma_jones6mo ago
Wait, your bindings are ALWAYS a little janky? That's a wild thing to just admit. My last project had a page block that was totally crooked and it drove me nuts for weeks. How are you not constantly fixing things or redoing entire sections? That sounds like a special kind of chaos.
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