Sourcing the paper was pretty cheap as I could get one sheet of A2 sugar paper in the library for 5p. The cover sheets we 30p for an A3 so all together I spent about £1 with plenty left over. I went for two different tones with the sugar paper as when I had looked through the ration book it was done and the pages were slightly different tones. I cut it all down so that it was A4 and I could feed it manually through my printer. Quite often it wont print ascew or slightly off because of the lining.
First I was printing one side landscape and then cutting it then refeeding it and printing the other. However I soon discovered the right size was portrait sheet of A4. This saved so much time as I could skip the trimming part. Once the whole book was printed I lined up the top pages so that it wouldn't need trimming later I could just cut the bottom off.
I found that even though the pages were exactly the same size once folded the ones in the centre ones stuck out. After I finished the book and bound it I cut it down. The whole idea of having a large gutter and small outer margin like in the ration book went to pot as when it cut they all varied on size. However I am not too fussed as it has cut correctly and not cut the type.
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