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Learn easy binding techniques for junk journals or mini albums. These 3 ways for binding a mini book or a junk journal don't require special skills or sewing
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hi everyone in N kler here with a new
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video tutorial and today I'm going to
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show you three ways to bind a junk
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journal or a mini album so the first
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method is pretty easy all you need is a
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ring
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to bind your pages so this could be junk
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journal pages this can be a mini album
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this can be tags I have here a few tags
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and all I need to do is make sure that I
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have a hole in each one now the fun part
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is that you can decide where the hole is
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going to be it can be in the top Center
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or it can be in the corner in the left
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corner if it's a junk Journal you can
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have it on the side and use instead of
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one ring you can use three rings or four
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rings separately of course and you
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decide the space in between them so this
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binding method doesn't require any
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sewing and it's really easy to do
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and it's affordable and
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timesaving so I'm going to make holes in
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all these tags just remove
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these extra paper that I have inside the
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hole and then you can also decide what
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kind of size ring you want because
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they're different sizes so that would
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depend on how many pages you actually
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have
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if you
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have just a few pages then you can use a
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small ring if you have many pages then
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you can use a larger
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ring so I'm just adding
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holes to the different tags and you see
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that when you bind with the ring you can
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use different shapes of pages because
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you don't need a straight edge like you
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do in sewing
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so now that I have all my holes this is
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the
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ring you can open it and close it and
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also this type of binding is not
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permanent because you can change the
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order of the pages anytime that you want
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you can add or remove pages after your
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junk journal or mini albums are already
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binded because this is not like
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sewing where once you've sewn it this is
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what you have you can open and close the
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ring whenever you want change the order
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add more pages I really like this um
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binding
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method doesn't require any skills just a
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ring one or more like I said so this is
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the first
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method you can see now you have a mini
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album a junk Journal
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with whatever pages that you made
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whatever size it can hold all the sizes
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rings are
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pretty
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sturdy okay so our next binding
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technique is also pretty
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easy also doesn't need a lot of
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skills and this
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is a junk Journal that I'm going to bind
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with a wire so the only down side for
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binding a junk journal or a mini album
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with the wire is that you need the
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machine that makes the holes and closes
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the wire
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later but if you have that then you the
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sky is the limit you can bind whatever
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size or size of pages number of pages
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that you
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want again here you don't have to have a
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straight
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edge and you can decide the
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order and like I said the size of the
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pages so what I did I just arranged all
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my pages this is the
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wire you can decide if you
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want six um
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points to your wire or you want less
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this
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machine uh makes this is a binded all it
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makes six holes at once so you can
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arrange it to have only the six centered
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or you
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can press it cut the six holes and then
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continue to the other side and have more
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holes
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and again this is a really good method
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to bind any type of junk Journal book
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notebook mini album Etc so see here I
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have more than six
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holes and also you can get different
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sizes of the wire it can be with a
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larger uh diameter if you have more
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pages and now I'm going to just add the
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holes to all the
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pages and the fun thing about binding
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with a wire is that you
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can like I said use different sizes
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of pages but you can also put the pages
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anywhere you want on The Wire if they're
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smaller so that gives you a little bit
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of Interest as well there's also a cinch
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machine I'll have them both
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Linked In the description under the
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video so you can check it out so you see
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some of the smaller pages are in the
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middle some are on the top some are on
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the bottom this is a really fun way to
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create a junk journal from any paper
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leftovers that you
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have and then you can add whatever you
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want to your junk journal or book you
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can turn it into a mini album and add
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photos so this
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is the second
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method and this is how it looks when
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it's
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done the third method of finding a junk
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journal or a mini album has no
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extra Rings wires materials whatsoever
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all you need is an
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envelope and making an envelope book or
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junk journal or art journal or mini
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album is pretty easy you can use
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readymade envelope envelopes you can use
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junk envelopes for your mail the Jun
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envelopes that you don't need and
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otherwise throw away or you can make
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your own envelopes I'm just going to
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make an envelope here with a square
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piece of
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paper and then I'm going to
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score the straight lines on all four
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sides and cut the little corners
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and I'm going to link this video on the
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bottom as well so you can see how to
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make your own envelopes if you
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want so you can have as many envelopes
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as you
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want and in different colors and of
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course in different size I made them
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pretty small here just to show you how
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to make the
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envelopes but again you can decide
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any size that you want you will need of
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course a double-sided paper if you use
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color you can also use
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white uh color paper and then embellish
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after the envelope is finished or even
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before you decide so I have here all my
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envelopes and now I'm going to show you
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how to bind them all together and then
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you'll have a mini album or a junk
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journal or a pocket book because this
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all the pages here are going to be
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Pockets so we're going to take our first
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envelope of course you need to decide
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what order you want and then fold the
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flap outside like this this is the first
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one then take the second envelope and
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this time we insert the
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flap
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inside the first envelope and I have
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turned the direction of the envelope
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because now we're
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going to glue that flap inside the
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envelope all the way up until the fold
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line the score line and then once that's
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glued you can fold it backwards like
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this and then you have the first two
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pages and now all you need to do is
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continue take another envelope put a
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little bit of
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glue and then insert
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like this don't forget to turn the
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direction so when you fold the page all
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the pockets
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will turn to the same direction and by
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the way if you don't turn the envelope
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and the pocket faces the other direction
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that will be fine
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too and so you just keep on adding all
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the envelopes this is the last one
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so now the book is almost
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done you still have that little first
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flap remaining from the first envelope
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so we're going
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to wrap it around bring it all the way
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to the front apply glue and glue it and
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this will close the spine and create our
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cover because it covers the pocket so
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now you have front and back covers as
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well so I really hope you like these
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three methods to bind a mini album or a
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junk journal or a mini book they're
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pretty easy give them a try please don't
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