As a Wiccan I keep an ongoing Book of Shadows, adding spells and such as I go. For a few years now I have been using already bounded journals. I’d like to have more control over the organization and final order of the book. Is there a way to do a simple, proffesional looking hard cover book binding at home?
A few companies make and sell professional-quality spring-clip binders, usually in leather, which let you easily rearrange the contacts while preserving a professionally bound look. They are mostly used for binding academic theses, so you can find them in many campus bookstores for about $20. The premier manufacturer for many years was Elbe in Fall River, Mass., but I think that they have gotten out of the business. Nowadays I order them from Roaring Spring. A high-end version, the Apollo Springback Binder, is sold by Kabe Albums.
we made our own books in elementary school using the samples of wallpaper found in a sample book, like you’d find in a home depot or something. we would take the thick paper and fix it to cardboard for the cover and back of the book.
depending on your pattern, it could look professional, and would be more personalized than a binder.
i think if you tore out your pages carefully, and if you had room in the margins, you could sew them back together. , with the covers sewn on top and bottom.
methinks it would be awesome 
I’ve bound books using good quality used books from library sales, or discount tables in bookstores. Looks like new with a new dust jacket you’ve printed on legal-size glossy paper (at Kinko’s copy store if your printer won’t do that size).
You must have your sections bound either with “saddle stitching” or stapling, or “perfect binding” which is putting glued tape across the spine edge of the chapter.
Then glue the first and last pages to the books old endpapers.