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Um…okay?

Ummm… …okay, that works I guess.

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Rebinding breakdown

I really like this breakdown of the cost for rebinding a book (and more than once, at that!) circa 1906. It’s a lot more expensive now! From this same book, here is a very detailed cut-away picture of the joint and endpaper construction for a book.  These images are from:   Dana, John Cotton. 1906. […]

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I really ❤️ the cute dinosaur illustration on this book’s spine. One could even call it a…spine-o-saur. :3

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1936. Book Repairs at the Urbana Free Library  Works Progress Administration Photographic File.  Pictures from the Urbana Daily Courier, Champaign County Historical Archives, Urbana Free Library. [x]

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Library Book + Dog + Tape = Bad Idea

This was a book that was damaged by a dog, and “fixed” with packing tape by a patron. And this is also why the staff at the library will often stress that patrons should not attempt their own repairs of library books. The “repair” often does more damage than helps, and won’t actually save you from […]

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Back in 1977, one of our library staff literally stapled some replacement pages into this book. It got the job done, but the results are not that ideal, as it makes it hard to read those pages and could tear the original pages they are stapled to. But this was way before my library had […]

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Library valentine about tape

sonofahurricane: npr: conservethis: Roses are red, Violets are blue, If you put tape on your books, I’ll never EVER love you. As a book-lover I support this valentine. -Mabinty can someone explain to me why we hate tape on books? Like book tape (when my mom could spare it) has saved a couple of my […]

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Disbinding a metal book

Today I dis-bound this book with a metal cover, so that it can go to the commercial bindery and get a new cover (the cover has gotten rather sharp and has been referred to as a ‘shiv’ by our cataloging department). Don’t worry, we have another pristine copy in special collections! This copy was our […]

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This book is covered in denim AND IT HAS A POCKET on the front cover!! :3