DIY Kindle Case From an Old Hardcover Book

We were putting things in boxes for the Salvation Army before the holidays when my brother, Rick, commented how this book could make a nice gadget cover. I agreed, and we set it aside. This week I picked up a strip of balsa wood and some elastic from ye olde craft store and voila. I pulled out the pages and sealed the seam with some gaffer tape. Used wood glue to affix the balsa rails to the edges. I pasted a page from the book that I liked into the inside cover just for grins. I found a foam sheet laying around from some Christmas gift and used a glue stick to stick some protective strips on. I don’t love how the foam strips look with the book page. Next time I might just put a full sheet of the foam on the inside cover. I used glue to put in the elastic strip. I considered putting an elastic strip around the outside of the book, like how Moleskines do, but I didn’t want to mess with the color of the book’s cover. Maybe if I were doing this for real I could dye the elastic?

Anyway, thanks to Rick for the idea, and to Blanche Saunders for writing the book — I sacrificed a good read to make this

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