There is a set of detail instructions on how to bind a book. The article has appeared in Make magazine, Volume 5 already but the author, Brian Sawyer, feels that it is heavily edited and want to provide a full background with additional description on steps, so he has created a wiki for this set of instructions:

This wiki is the home of an article that appears in heavily edited (in a good way) form in Make magazine, Volume 5. While the editors did a great job of distilling ramblings that far exceeded the word limit I was given into a concise and useful article, the limits of space prohibited much of the additional description, background, nuance, and pictures of my original piece. So, I thought it was worth posting my first draft. What it lacks in polish I hope it makes up for in depth…

DIY Bookbinding – [Brian Sawyer]