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How to book-bind myself without the middle pages sticking out?

14pages of A6 in total. if i simply fold n staple, the pages would stick out as it gets nearer to the middle. how do i book-bind professionally at home?


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Years ago I bound six months supply of Motorcycle Magazine by cutting across the spine so that all the pages were separate then I clamped them together with some timber and painted the exposed edges with hot melt glue and worked a piece of cotton scrim into the glue the open edges I levelled up by making a small jig that I ran back and forward it had a blade which cut through several pages at once and gave me a nice even finish. I fixed cotton covered cardboard as covers and it lasted for years. Hope this helps
PS I guess modern day cold glues would work just as well.
PPS Or you could just guillotine them