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Jun 1, 2021

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    1. Hi everybody!

      One of my boys, Seymour, is a big fan of anime and manga (just like me). I was thinking about how I can show it and came to the only decision: create a shelf with a collection of manga! Here is the result:

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      Here you can watch a short video of the creation process. However, now pages are printed on the standard office sheets, and the dust jackets are printed on the glossy photo paper.

      https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=2480924798720062


      The highest shelf is filled with kinder egg toys that stand for the figures. The rest of the shelves are full of books and manga. The first one is filled with the best books I've ever read. We have:
      - several Stephen King books;
      - the whole Harry Potter series;
      - The Game of Thrones series (I still hope there will be more of them...);
      - The Witcher;
      - Several books by H.P. Lovecraft.
      - The Little Prince lies at the top;

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      There is a bunch of books on the lower shelf as well (my little collection of dystopia, books by Dan Brown, and some others).

      Each book has at least 32 pages in it, depending on the spine size. For instance, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows has ~250 pages. Every book has the text of the real book inside (so if you open the little version of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, you'll be able to read the first N pages of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King).

      Here you can read a page from Fahrenheit 451:
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      And then we have a big, really big number of manga volumes... I personally have never had that many, and, to be honest, I have not even read some of the titles. The point is I needed to find manga that had all the covers and good scans of the pages on the internet and not every title can provide it.

      Here is the little collection:
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      Some of the volumes have the pages block attached right to the cover, but there are not a lot of them:
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      Most of the volumes have dust jackets:
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      Printing and assembling one standard volume takes ~1 hour. I spent many, many evenings with the scissors, glue, and paper sheets in my hands. But I'm proud of what I did.

      I have one more empty shelf to fill and I plan to try making a hard-cover book or an art book of a different format. Hope it will work out!


      A little bonus: Seymour also loves k-pop so he... pinned some posters to his bookshelf. =D
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      #1 AlexEllery, Jun 1, 2021
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    2. Those are amazing I love it! Do you perhaps have a tutorial you could share? I'd love to to this for my dolls!
       
      #2 juni-fee, Jun 1, 2021
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    3. this is insane!!! (in the best way possible!) one of my dolls is a bookworm and this gives me a lot of ideas for maybe making him his own grimoire...!
       
      #3 clefairy, Jun 1, 2021
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    4. amazing. i thought this was real bookshelf and was confused about the kitty for a bit because i knew those kitties are like 10cm big and if you'd somehow gotten a giant version of it.
       
      #4 bahboh, Jun 1, 2021
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    5. Oh my gosh I love this SO much!!! I also thought this was an actual human-sized bookshelf in your room and it took a second to sink in. This is really cute, you have such great attention to detail and right away you can tell a lot of love and work went into this project. I'm jealous of Seymour, hope he's enjoying his great book and manga collection :P

      I would also love a more in-depth tutorial on how to make these books or even just a link to the templates if you ever have the time!
       
      #5 CptGoose, Jun 1, 2021
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    6. Well done!
       
      #6 Seafoam Shade, Jun 1, 2021
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    7. This is absolutely amazing!!! Not to mention inspiring.
      It looks so good and is so cool!!! :D
      And I love that they're all the actual books too!
      This must have taken so long to put together!(also, if you would ever consider doing a full tutorial on the process, I would be incredibly grateful.)

      Either way, absolutely lovely.
       
      #7 CrowTheChangeling, Jun 1, 2021
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    8. This is amazing! If you ever make a full tutorial - like what program you used, how you kept track of what went where so that when you printed on both sides it was correct - I would love to use it to make some books of my own for my dolls! I'm not sure what elves would read, but Lord of the Rings seems like a proper set to make!
       
      #8 jessholy, Jun 1, 2021
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    9. This is absolutely amazing! The quality and quantity are stunning! I'd really love to try to make it for my dolls and this inspires me so much! Thank you for sharing :D
       
      #9 viventies, Jun 2, 2021
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    10. This is so impressive!

      Teddy
       
      #10 Teddy, Jun 2, 2021
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    11. Absolutly mind blowing! One hour per book you say? That bookcase is stocked! I'm impressed by the end result and sheer amount of books produced.
       
      #11 Subzerolover, Jun 2, 2021
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    12. Those books look incredible! The ones I've made my mature tiny gang are a lot less realistic.
       
      #12 Leo Pheonix, Jun 2, 2021
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    13. It looks impressive, but... I this legal in the USA? I genuinely curious, because here you can't copy or reprint something you don't have the rights to. I understand that different countries have different rules but I never really got the whole "fair use" thing.
       
      #13 Lillith, Jun 2, 2021
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    14. I'm so amazed that you went out of your way to fill every book with real (scaled down) pages. That a lot of dedication and you did so many of them! Good job! This is really neat to look at.
       
      #14 //Milk, Jun 2, 2021
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    15. What an amazing job! The patience it must have taken to put all of these together is astounding. I'm in awe of your work~

      I especially love the kpop posters Seymour put up, I love his faves. ❤️
       
      #15 LonelyArtist, Jun 2, 2021
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      #16 Gintsumi, Jun 2, 2021
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    17. Thank you so much! I'm so glad you liked my boy's bookshelf. I'll make a full tutorial with the photos, covering each step a bit later, since you ask <3 But be forewarned, almost everything is done with the use of the things lying around, no special tools (it will cause some unnecessary difficulties). =D

      Thank you for your compliments! They inspire me to make even more new things <3

      Thank you so much!
      Hahahaha :D I'd like to get a giant ball-jointed cat to scare my real cat!

      Thank you! I became a crazy fan of Reborn when it got released (in 2007?), my life was a fully Reborn-related life for 2 or 3 years. So I could not help printing all the volumes of Reborn available on the internet.
      And I'm watching Gintama right now. It's excellent!
      My dolls are open to making new friends! <3

      Thank you! Can I ask you to show me the grimoire if you make it? ^_^

      Thank you for your compliment! I asked myself the same question after printing a couple of volumes. I'll be honest, I know nothing about the copyright in the USA but in my country printing a single copy of a book for personal use is allowed. So as long as I do not sell them, I should be good. Also, this is not a true "copy" as it contains only a small part of the text which may be taken as a weird way of quating.
       
      #17 AlexEllery, Jun 3, 2021
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    18. Oh, I see. I am not very well read when it comes to law either. I think this would count as public display rather than personal use since you posted it for all to see, but maybe not, since I think you need to be logged in to see this subforum? I honestly have no idea, these things are confusing.
      It's a cool project, regardless. I have one or two dolls who would be very jealous if they saw this.
       
      #18 Lillith, Jun 3, 2021
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    19. I look forward to the full tutorial!!!
       
      #19 jessholy, Jun 3, 2021
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    20. My brain still can't comprehend that the shelf isn't an actual bookshelf... I fell like I need to see it to scale by a person or something, haha!
       
      #20 DamirSoull, Jun 3, 2021
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    21. Wellllll, you've asked, I've made it! :D Enjoy!
      /tutorials/printing-tiny-books.203/


      Hehe, thank you! Here you can see Leon playing his guitar near the shelf :D
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      #21 AlexEllery, Jun 28, 2021
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    22. That is incredible! And now my brain isn't trying to jump through an endless stream of trying to figure out the optical illusion it was going through, haha! Hope to see more of this awesome prop!
       
      #22 DamirSoull, Jun 29, 2021
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    23. You are super talented! Thank you so much for sharing this. It's such a delight to see all the BJD sized books!:dance
       
      #23 Ligaya24, Jul 27, 2021
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    24. Thank you so much! I do plan to try some different things but have no time for crafting now >_<

      @Gintsumi
      I'm old too =D Gosh, can't even believe that it's been more than 10 years
      I'll sew Okita's eye mask for him! And I'm 100% sure Seymour will try himself in amateur cosplay! Maybe Squalo...

      Thank you, thank you for your compliment! <3
       
      #24 AlexEllery, Jul 29, 2021
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      #25 Gintsumi, Aug 2, 2021
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