Thanks, Inkie.

I have seen the moleskin tutorial. That's exactly what I want to do, with a cardstock/photopaper cover. It will only be around 20 pages, so I think heavy duty staples will work.

What I really want to know is how to correlate the pages so that they read in order. I have Photoshop and Illustrator, but no InDesign. I did check out the tutorials in the software that I have, but the ones I found are for printing photobooks from pieces of folded paper.

I know adobe indesign can line up the signatures for you. But that's the only way I've ever done it.

As for binding, maybe keyring or jumprings through a few holes? It would end up kind of binder-like though. Or I recently tried this method if you're close to being done with all the pages.  I tried it with a cardstock cover for my first attempt, but I think a hardcover would work too.