Binding Obsession Binding Obsession http://bindingobsession.com Beautiful, hand-made journals and sketchbooks Mon, 29 Apr 2013 19:48:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 In the News: E-books, E-books, and more E-books http://bindingobsession.com/2013/04/in-the-news-e-books-e-books-and-more-e-books/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=in-the-news-e-books-e-books-and-more-e-books http://bindingobsession.com/2013/04/in-the-news-e-books-e-books-and-more-e-books/#comments Mon, 15 Apr 2013 09:00:06 +0000 Jackie Divis Doyle http://bindingobsession.com/?p=3818 I’ve written about E-books here before—as both a book lover and a digital native, and someone who does plenty of reading in both formats, I find this subject of great importance. I’ve been hoarding a lot of articles on this subject of the past few months, so this will be a long one—and there should be something [...]

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]]> http://bindingobsession.com/2013/04/in-the-news-e-books-e-books-and-more-e-books/feed/ 0 Midnight landscape: a long-stitch album http://bindingobsession.com/2013/03/midnight-landscape-a-long-stitch-album/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=midnight-landscape-a-long-stitch-album http://bindingobsession.com/2013/03/midnight-landscape-a-long-stitch-album/#comments Sat, 30 Mar 2013 14:43:48 +0000 Jackie Divis Doyle http://bindingobsession.com/?p=3841 The blog has been conspicuously quiet for some months; I hope my readers will forgive the silence, especially since this relative reticence might continue for some time. In just over two months, my husband and I will be packing up all of our worldly possessions and moving away from the city that I have loved so dearly [...]

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]]> http://bindingobsession.com/2013/03/midnight-landscape-a-long-stitch-album/feed/ 0 Fore-edge painting: The book as canvas http://bindingobsession.com/2012/11/fore-edge-painting-the-book-as-canvas/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fore-edge-painting-the-book-as-canvas http://bindingobsession.com/2012/11/fore-edge-painting-the-book-as-canvas/#comments Tue, 20 Nov 2012 05:00:38 +0000 Jackie Divis Doyle http://bindingobsession.com/?p=3642 I’ve written a feature on books as art, but what about art on books? Although bindings themselves can sometimes be works of art (not that you’re not likely to find those for sale at your local bookstore), sometimes the book itself—specifically, the text block—can be used as a canvas, as in fore-edge painting. What is [...]

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]]> http://bindingobsession.com/2012/11/fore-edge-painting-the-book-as-canvas/feed/ 2 The Binding Obsession shop: Open for business http://bindingobsession.com/2012/11/the-binding-obsession-shop-open-for-business/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-binding-obsession-shop-open-for-business http://bindingobsession.com/2012/11/the-binding-obsession-shop-open-for-business/#comments Thu, 01 Nov 2012 05:00:24 +0000 Jackie Divis Doyle http://bindingobsession.com/?p=3589 When I decided several weeks ago to officially launch the Binding Obsession shop on November 1, I had no idea of the devastation that would directly precede this event. Here in Boston, Sandy did relatively little damage; our home never even lost power. But having grown up on Long Island, I have a lot of friends and family in New [...]

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]]> http://bindingobsession.com/2012/11/the-binding-obsession-shop-open-for-business/feed/ 1 Welcome to the new Binding Obsession http://bindingobsession.com/2012/10/welcome-to-the-new-binding-obsession/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=welcome-to-the-new-binding-obsession http://bindingobsession.com/2012/10/welcome-to-the-new-binding-obsession/#comments Sun, 14 Oct 2012 17:59:35 +0000 Jackie Divis Doyle http://bindingobsession.com/?p=3541 After many hours of fumbling around with DNS, .htaccess, PHP, databases, plug-ins, CSS, and SEO; reorganizing post categories and tags, menus, and static pages; updating far too many broken links and featured images; revising the About page; and creating some new visual content, I’m pleased to announce that Binding Obsession’s move to self-hosting and official [...]

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]]> http://bindingobsession.com/2012/10/welcome-to-the-new-binding-obsession/feed/ 0 Potential downtime this weekend http://bindingobsession.com/2012/10/potential-downtime-this-weekend/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=potential-downtime-this-weekend http://bindingobsession.com/2012/10/potential-downtime-this-weekend/#comments Fri, 12 Oct 2012 12:37:31 +0000 Jackie Divis Doyle http://bindingobsession.com/?p=2841 Starting tomorrow (or perhaps this evening, if I’m feeling up to it), Binding Obsession will be making the move to a self-hosted WordPress.org installation. WordPress.com has been good to me, but I’m starting to feel stifled by its limitations, and if I’m going to spend money to make this website look the way I want it [...]

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]]> http://bindingobsession.com/2012/10/potential-downtime-this-weekend/feed/ 0 A day of storms http://bindingobsession.com/2012/10/a-day-of-storms/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-day-of-storms http://bindingobsession.com/2012/10/a-day-of-storms/#comments Fri, 05 Oct 2012 22:55:51 +0000 Jackie Divis Doyle http://bindingobsession.com/?p=2754 In addition to the bradel binding featured in my last entry, I created a few other books for my recent wedding. (Not to mention all of those paper hearts!) Now that M and I have returned and recovered from our trip to Scotland, I thought I’d take a look at a few of the details [...]

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]]> http://bindingobsession.com/2012/10/a-day-of-storms/feed/ 1 The beer book: A bradel binding http://bindingobsession.com/2012/09/the-beer-book-a-bradel-binding/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-beer-book-a-bradel-binding http://bindingobsession.com/2012/09/the-beer-book-a-bradel-binding/#comments Thu, 13 Sep 2012 09:00:28 +0000 Jackie Divis Doyle http://bindingobsession.com/?p=2774 Bradel bindings are a style of German, hollow-backed, cased-in structure. I’d mentioned in a previous entry that I was going to attempt this structure, and I showed an in-progress shot of the text block. Well, I can now happily show off its final form. The book is intended as a space for M to store [...]

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