How Do You Make A Book Dust Jacket?
Book dust jackets are essential to ensuring a book’s longevity. Protecting your books should be high on your list of priorities if you are a book lover or intend to keep your book for a long period of time. Follow this simple process to protect and maintain your books without breaking the bank buying professional book covers. Find an 11 x 17 inch piece of paper to make a book dust jacket. For most books, this paper size is adequate. Center your book in the middle of paper. Locate the spine’s edges. Draw vertical lines on the paper from the spine’s edges to the top and bottom of the paper. Remove the book and cut along your markings. The result should look like rectangular spine flaps. Fold in the book spine flaps inwards. Align the book on top of the folded spine flaps. Open the book. Fold the remaining portions of the cut top and bottom flaps over the book’s cover at the top and bottom. Loosely wrap the remaining, unfolded paper over the left and right sides of the book’s cover. Hold
