Is it legal to have a collection of interesting articles printed for personal use, in the form of a book? Every once in a while I come across an article whose quality stands out exceptionally in my field of research. While I don't always have the time to read the full paper (usually tens of pages long), I "mark" it so that I may read it later or refer to it in a future article if needed. Unfortunately my attempts at marking articles have always had several shortcomings:


Bookmarking it: after a while I will forget what I bookmarked, what the title of the article was, the author, and so forth,
Saving it on disk: I never recall I had them in the first place,
Printing it out: tedious, and after a while I am left with hundreds of pages of documents lying around in an unordered fashion.


So I was thinking of collecting my "favorite" articles into a single collection, then having them printed in the form of a book, strictly for personal use of course. Then whenever I am writing on a specific subject, I take the book down from the shelf that corresponds most to my research and have everything nicely laid out in a single place.

Now obviously, this raises all sorts of red flags about printing a large number of people's work, collecting them in a single place, having it bound in a book, ... So I am not sure what I am allowed and not allowed to do in such a context. Legally speaking, can I do this without fear of a backlash?
I don't see how printing a paper for one's personal use could be legal, but printing 2 or 10 and binding them together would be illegal. As long as it is actually strictly for your personal use, if printing a paper for your personal use is legal where you live, then certainly binding them together is.

But I would advise against actually binding them. Let's say you do, then the next day you find a new paper on the same topic. You will want to kick yourself, because you will not be able to add it to the collection. I think that most people have bunches of physical folders, with papers consisting of stapled (or otherwise kept together) stacks of papers, but separate papers not being bound to one another.