Take a jigsaw to that book!

Forget what your elementary school librarian told you about taking care of books. In Altered Art: Techniques for Creating Altered Books, Boxes, Cards & More (745.5T212a), author Terry Taylor tells how to strengthen pages so you can affix heavy elements to them, create windows and doors inside books, shape books with an electric jigsaw, and she shares techniques for folding and cutting pages.

Here's the jigsaw in action:



Here's the finished product, a book on the mysteries of the brain: