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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Put on yer gloves!
When you find out that water leaked from the ceiling INTO the Preservation lab: Then you find out the water came from an overflowing toilet… And that it’s happened before!
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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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Little Monday morning surprises found squashed in the margin of a book I’m resewing.
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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.
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Proper tape removal etiquette requires the pinky finger to be extended.
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Monday morning blob of spine cleaning boogers.