Hand making books, when the book is blank is easy peasy. Just fold your sheets in half, sew them together with the top secret not to be revealed stitch pattern and attach to the cover of your choice and devising. Sometimes, with a soft cover you have already done that. But if you have created content (a bland all purpose word for what you put on your pages) then you will need to be careful about how you lay the pages out. You can not create your pages in order. They will come out all funny. For me, hands on, I create a little mock up text block and write the page numbers, title, copyright placement on each page. Then I separate them and I can be sure that pages which should lie next to each other for printing actually do.
In this way you get layouts* that look like this:
But when you put your book together, they come out looking like this:
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