On Wednesday, March 7, 2018 at 8:13:40 PM UTC-5, Markem wrote:
On Wed, 07 Mar 2018 16:40:40 -0800, pyotr filipivich
wrote:

Electric Comet on Wed, 7 Mar 2018
11:33:58 -0800 typed in rec.woodworking the following:
On Fri, 02 Mar 2018 15:46:48 -0800
pyotr filipivich wrote:

If you are binding a book, using wooden covers, that can be done
without hinges. Unless you're going for that Book of Armaments look
and feel.

probably 12 by 9 inches

doing a book binding type hinge might be interesting the material
for the hinge or binding would have to be super durable though

thinking hinges might be the best solution

They've been putting "heavy" covers on books for a thousand years.
Depends on the quality of the material used to hold the binding of the
book to the cover.
There's a lot of "technical" details I do not have at hand, yeah,
it can be done. Without hinges.

Lets see did A Dags for videos on Book binding

https://goo.gl/VhyxPY

You'd think there would be a book or two on the subject. ;-)