(for binding your own books)
Spurred on with my daughter flying through her first grade reader and needing something else to assign for reading (and also because of an old reader which my husbands grandmother had given him, which we found to be superior to most, if not all, modern readers), I went on a search for some good, old school readers. I found a slew on Google Books and a few others at Memorial University of Newfoundland’s book archive site.
Then I got to wondering if there was a simple way to print them as “booklets” so that I could bind them with my spiral binder. Well, Adobe Reader’s help page on printing booklets was helpful, it got me started, but it took me a few tries to find what actually works.
Go to File > Print
1. Under Print Range, select your page range
2. Click on “Reverse pages”
3. Under Paper Handling > Page Scaling, select “Booklet Printing.”
4. Choose “Back side only” for Booklet subset.
5. Print.
6. Repeat process with same print range, but this time:
7. Uncheck “Reverse pages”
8. Choose “Front side only” for Booklet subset.
9. Put your 1/2 printed pages in your printer (for my printer, they go in without being rotated and face down), print.
Then all I have to do is cut the sheets down the middle, don’t get the pages mixed up, punch them and bind my book. I was afraid I might forget this process so am sharing it for your edification and my personal future reference.
