This was posted today on the hungarian site, rpg.hu: a fan of Ian Watson's work bound his favourite WH40K novels in leather, and put some nice optical tuning on it: check this out !

Maybe the colour of the leather and some elements aren't the best at first glance, but still, an awesome work of a big fan. I know most of you won't understand a word from the article, but nevertheless, the pictures are nice.

Very nice indeed, if he could get the backing from GW he could make a killing making and selling books like that.

It's...BEAUTIFULL!! Amazing, really. I think the leather used is very unusual looking. Looks almost xeno'ish. I myself would have gone with something darker. But man, does that ever look professional!

The guy said he wanted it to look like it's bound in mutant hide, but he's planning creating a darker book, with his unused ideas. By the way, if I remember correctly, the Emperor's Tarot is also bound in mutant's hide.

Yep most of the text I couldn't understand, the only exception being "awesome". Truly great work, the pictures are excellent

Nice.

I come from a family of bookbinders, and I've often thought of doing something like that myself. It's just that my grandfather used to run a bookbinding company on the industrial level and I get really access that much knowledge of how to do individual works like this. But I think he has some friends who do individual works (and quite artistic ones like this). I gotta speak with him about it sometime...