Re: [BKARTS] why fold on the grain?

[Don Drake <ddrake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Scott,

Not so outside the box. When making photo albums, especially those with
long horizontal dimensions, I prefer to run the grain perpendicular to
the spine to increase page rigidity and support for attached images
during page turning.

Don Drake
Dreaming Mind

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On Feb 25, 2005, at 1:22 PM, Scott Teplin wrote:

> Very VERY outside the box and around the block thinking!
>
> -Scott
>
> On Feb 25, 2005, at 12:15 PM, James Tapley wrote:
>
> > I can think of several reasons to format the book "wrong" grain. And
> > I'm not even smart.

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