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How to Print Your l Diary as a Booklet

Each diary is laid out at half-letter size (5.5" x 8.5") so it folds perfectly into a booklet on standard Letter paper. For a clean fold with pages in the right order, print through Adobe Acrobat Reader (free) — Word and Pages don't reliably reorder an existing PDF's pages for booklet folding, so skip those for this step.

1. Download the diary PDF (click the cover image or title below).
2. Open it in Adobe Acrobat Reader, then go to File > Print.
3. Under "Page Sizing & Handling," select Booklet.
4. Set Binding to Left.
5. Under "Sheets," choose Both sides if your printer auto-duplexes. If not, print Front side only first, flip the stack per your printer's manual-duplex instructions, then print Back side only.
6. Load standard Letter (8.5" x 11") paper.
7. Print, fold each sheet in half, stack in order, and secure the spine with a saddle-stitch stapler — or bring the stack to a copy shop for stapling/binding.

Note: since the diary runs 69 pages, Acrobat will pad it with a few blank pages to round out to a multiple of 4 — that's normal booklet behavior, not an error.

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