Books have more uses than might be obvious. Sure, you can press flowers in a heavy one and set out the pretty ones as decoration. You can read the darn things. But have you tried turning a book ...

This is an easy craft idea floating around the Internet: a business card holder made from an old book. Step 1: Select a book I chose a vintage book for its yellowed pages to give my card holder a r… ...

Able to hold over 100 times its own weight, you can even place a piece of wood across two books to create a bench, or stack them up to create bookshelves… out of books.

A signature is a folded sheet of paper that contains multiple pages of a book. Workers fold and bind signatures together to create the final product. In the conservation lab, books can also be washed.

Martin has a quick comeback for those who think book folding is an act of destruction. “Let’s be realistic here. Sometimes old books are better suited for a new purpose,” Martin says.

Books have more uses than might be obvious. Sure, you can press flowers in a heavy one and set out the pretty ones as decoration. You can read the darn ...