I have many hobbies. Too many, in fact. One of them is hand binding books. My first one was my black leather journal. I simply glued some pieces of paper together, threw on a leather cover, and voila!
My next one was a flip top leather covered journal for my sister. Same method as the first.
But after that, I started getting better. The third journal was sewn, with proper signatures, endpapers, and mulls. The cover was out of fabric and manila folder.