I’d initially planned on personally binding my third collection poetry, just as I had with my first two.  The first collection; Doing Time..., was soft-cover bound using an interesting spine clip.  The book was quite handsome, though I still felt there was room for improvement.  The second collection; it’s about no longer being a bastard, was hard-cover bound.  I practically ripped apart some hard-cover novels I owned, researched book making, and came up with my own design which I maintain looks phenomenal.  The only downside is that each book takes nearly 3 hours to complete.