A pretty good explanation of how books are made (duh). Starting off with an author who has just finished a book, and apparently decides to publish the book himself (no mention of book companies are mentioned). We then fast forward to the typing, the type setting, printing, and finally the binding of the book. Nicely paced and quite interesting.

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If the processes shown in this film were not well documented, would anyone be able to reconstruct them after the book makers and their equipment were long gone? I think probably not. It makes me wonder what other, much older technologies are now lost to time. How many processes and techniques will never be rediscovered?

- April 9, 2003Hard copies the hard way