/diy/ - Do It Yourself

Well I thought I could handle such a project without help, but I guess I was wrong. I'm making a hollow book. I looked up some basic instructions and followed the first one I saw. I glued the edges of the paper so it couldn't come apart anymore and then it said to drill four holes in the four courners of the hollow, but this caused the glue to become undone and the pages became warped from shreds of paper. The cutting pages out, even with a new box cutter as annoying slow too.

I went and got another book (got both of them for $2 a piece at the library) and am going to start over. Do you all know of any good methods to use for this kind of thing? Also ideas on how to quickly cut through the pages would be nice too, this is an 800+ pages 2.2 inch book here.