Long Story Short (v. 1.

1)
A book with arbitrarily many pages
designed by Michał Kosmulski, 2015

w+m
m+h+m

1. Start at the left edge of the strip, 2. Fold and unfold along the edge,
white side up. Valley fold a rectangle then unfold everything.
which will be the width of the book’s
cover plus a small margin.

3. Valley fold both rectangles along 4. Mountain fold and unfold through both
the crease to the right. layers along the existing crease.

5. Mountain fold the whole right part 6. Turn to the other side.
of the strip.

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7. Valley fold through all layers. 8. Open by swiveling to the right the long
Distance from the edge will be the part of the strip and all layers above it.
difference in size between cover and
pages.

9. Fold and unfold the corners.
10. Open and squash along the pre-creased
lines in the corners, at the same time folding
the edges of the long part of the strip to form
thin margins (white side up). Keep the margins
an equal width throughout their whole length.

11. Valley fold the corners through 12. Swivel the thin part of the strip back
all layers. to the left.

13. Valley fold a bit to the right of the 14. Valley fold the near layers a bit to the left
crease visible in the further layer. of the right edge of the cover. Make the crease
Make the crease very sharp. very sharp.

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15. Repeat steps 13-14, forming page
after page, until you consume the
whole length of the strip.
16. Ideally, your pleated strip would end at
exactly the right edge of a page. Usually, this
is not the case. You can keep excess paper
or cut it off. Now, valley fold the left part of the
cover, closing the book.

17. Round the back of the book to match the thickness 18. Open the top cover.
of pages inside. Mountain fold the right edge of front
cover to match the width of back cover. Tuck the folded
part below the nearest complete page layer.

a)

b)

19. There are two variants for locking the pages to the 20. Finished model.
cover. Variant a) is easier to fold while b) is stronger.
Use the same variant in both corners, then close the book.

© Copyright 2016 by Michał Komulski

This document was published by OrigamiUSA’s online magazine, The Fold, with permission from the author.
If you did not obtain this document from The Fold’s website, you may have infringed upon the author’s copyright.
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