Is there an easy way to get my computer/printer to do booklet imposition?
I looked into this years ago when I was printing out some books to test my leather binding skills. Back then you likely would have used dedicated software to perform this function.

Software has changed since then and Adobe Reader DC does this as well as InDesign from what I gather. Depending on your Acrobat version it should be able to do this well. In short form: the instructions from Adobe Reader DC


In the printer dialog select Booklet. This is found under Page Sizing and handling.





In the Booklet Subset pop-up menu select "Both sides" if you have duplex printer.
Leave the numbers in the Sheets From boxes as they are.
Select Auto-Rotate Pages to automatically rotate each page for the best fit in the printable area.


InDesign has instructions to do this as well. That link is for CS6 and other versions might have similar UI or more specific instructions sets. The Indesign wizard for booklets is more in depth than Reader DC's and covers topic like bleeding, page spacing, magins etc.



Another possible solution is that many modern enterprise copy machines do this natively with their drivers. A place like a copy center likely would do it on the cheap. My old Ricoh at work does this function. It is about 6 years old now and was not top of the line at the time. This might be cheaper depending on your ink/toner costs and size of the book you are making