There are several ways to go about making handmade bookbinding. The cheapest and easiest is to saddle-stitch the book. For this method you lay a small stack of pages together with a cover made of card stock, put two staples along the spine to hold it together, and then fold it in half.

The edges of the paper will not line up perfectly (a problem that becomes more pronounced as the number of pages increases.) Alternately, you can sew the pages together with a heavy thread instead of stapling. You can also trim the edges with a paper trimmer to even them up. Many large hardcover books are made by glueing together several small stacks of pages bound in this way.

A very common method of binding is to stack together your pages and then glue them along the spine edge with a very strong glue. After the pages have dried, a heavier stock paper is glued to the spine as a cover.