Herb Sherman puts a sheet of signatures (that’s fancy book lingo for pages) into the guillotine cutter. (TIM GOODWIN / Insider staff)
Can you say stamping machine? (TIM GOODWIN / Insider staff)
Those are letters used to create lead stamps for individual covers. (TIM GOODWIN / Insider staff)
That’s Phineas, the unofficial office mascot of the bindery. (TIM GOODWIN / Insider staff)
That’s a sign for the bindery. (TIM GOODWIN / Insider staff)
If covers were being put on, that’s where it would happen. (TIM GOODWIN / Insider staff)
This is where glue is placed on the spine and it goes from 180 degrees to dry in a matter of seconds. (TIM GOODWIN / Insider staff)
Dan Reardon takes air out of the spines. (TIM GOODWIN / Insider staff)
This machine sews the signatures together. (TIM GOODWIN / Insider staff)
Before the book can be put together, its got to be collated. (TIM GOODWIN / Insider staff)
Glue is being used to attach the end paper to the first signature. (TIM GOODWIN / Insider staff)
Those pages will soon become a book. (TIM GOODWIN / Insider staff)
With this being the books issue, we thought, “Why not check out how one’s put together?” So we meandered over to the New Hampshire Bindery in Bow to see how our favorite titles end up in a neatly bound package.
