Here in the lab there’s no issues,With using our tissues,Except when you sneeze,We ask you quite please,Use the Kleenex and not the Sekishu! There once was a company named Demco,Whose products were used with a gusto,On spines they would drape,The most marvelous tape,Removing its really quite slow, yo. I work in a book-fixing lab,this makes […]
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Screenshot from our library catalog software, as I’m checking books back in after they’ve been repaired. Apparently, this book was quite delicious.
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Leather coloring that reminds me of autumn leaves. The inside is just as brittle as crisp autumn leaves, too, which is a shame.
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They did WHAT?
When I hear the phrase “we fixed it with some tape”…
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This book had an ombré spine lining! The red is probably the result of over spraying when they colored the head edge of the textblock. Also I dig the yellow and purple color scheme.
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Someone “fixed” this with some poorly placed pieces of double-sided tape. Sigh.
So, I just learned about a Preservation ‘urban legend’ yesterday, while working a preservation “clinic” at a workshop hosted by my library. A man had brought a very brittle and fragile army base newspaper that belonged to his father. It was falling apart, and the paper was very pulpy and probably wouldn’t survive much more […]
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So you know how you can tape things to other things by making a little loop of Scotch tape? Turns out it’s not a very good way to repair books.
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More uses for the wood burning hot tool: removing really stubborn not-water-soluble spine linings.
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Don’t read and drive, folks.