OUDG404- What is a book? book research

I went back home to my local fishing shop that I worked at for 3 years to look at different fishing books on knots to help me understand and see the most important parts of the book I need to focus on.

The main thing I need to look at when designing my book is the layout look at the book I found that having an organized step-by-step layout that can be used on each page makes it easier to follow and understand the instructions. To do this a must it to have each step numbered this make the reader understand what order it goes in also I feel that giving each step-by-step some around it will make it clearer. The step-by-step will be on one page with a introduction to the knot on the other page.

Looking at fishing book covers in the shop and online some are very simple using a couple of colours and other are really bright and bold too much colour, however I like the full colour front cover as it makes it standout on book shelf. I think will use a maximum of 4 colours looking at book cover my favourite colours together are blue, black and white also grey, white, black and red, I think the blue will be more successful as blue reminds me of water.

The size of the book is really important and I think for this step-by-step book on knot the perfected size is A5 because it pocket size and also it will fit in most fishing bags. Also A5 is big enough to fit all the text and images on each page and it means the type can still be big so it is clear and easy to read.