How to make a thesis that can be read from both sides?

Question

Soon I will have to hand in my thesis for my PhD. For my thesis I want to make a book that consists of two parts. You open on one side and you read the first part and turn it over to read the other part. Does anyone know how to make this in LateX? Is there a package for this?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Here is a 'stupid' idea:

Write two separate docs and include them as 1st part with regular order and the second one with the pages in reversed order and rotated.

Alternatively: Write one doc and choose the page range explicitly, which should go for the first part and as well for the 2nd (reversed) part.

The easiest way is \includepdffrom pdfpages package -- but this will lose the cross-referencing and hyperlinks, but the later are for a printed document not really useful. ToC etc. is little bit difficult, but should be possible.

\documentclass{book}

\usepackage{pdfpages}

\title{How to annoy people}
\author{A.U Thor}
\date{2063/4/5}

\begin{document}

\includepdf[pages=-]{dummydoc1.pdf}

\includepdf[pages=last-1,angle=-180]{dummydoc2.pdf}

\end{document}

Here is dummydoc1.tex (and dummydoc2.tex is pretty much the same.)

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{blindtext}

\pagestyle{empty}
\begin{document}
\section{Beginning \jobname}
\blindtext[50]
\end{document}