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“Please fix this bad fix” is a surprisingly large percentage of my job. This book was sent to me because someone had replaced one of the pages with a photocopy (actually TWO photocopies glued together to make a two-sided copy) by taping it to the adjacent original pages in the book. Sigh.

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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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When someone uses the phrase “archival tape”

No, really, an “archival quality” pressure-sensitive tape does not exist.

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Tape removal using a wood-burning tool. 

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Library valentine about tape

Roses are red, Violets are blue, If you put tape on your books, I’ll never EVER love you.