How to Hide in an Empty Room is a reflection on the printed space of the book and its biasing center: the fold. The fold of the book is essential for its construction, but its existence can sabotage the content by denting images or hiding information. When opening How to Hide in an Empty Room an indented thread binding prevents the opening of the pages to the full extent. With reference to wily how-to-manuals How to Hide in an Empty Room applies this idea to the book and the space created, deformed, and manipulated by external forces, essentially those of material and viewer.