I love the website Lapbook Lessons and found this really cool link for homemade books.  This woman uses recycled items for the book pages and even neater is what she used for her bindings.  The video I have included is of her using a small stick and a rubber band to hold her book together and not only does it look nice, but it works great.

Stick and Elastic book

Here is her website too should you want to check out more about other books.

Kim