Fixin’ books in the Wild West
If you read this blog, my guess is that you are either a serious craftsperson, or an enthusiastic hobbyist. You probably frequent DIY craft sites like Etsy, Craftster, or Make. Like me, you have probably found examples of ingenious projects as well as a fair share of handmade abominations (I’m backed up by Regretsy on [...]
I often curse when I have to reverse patch up jobs done on books with poor materials and inept hands, so it’s somewhat comforting to hear that this happens on a much larger scale as well.
The Ambrosiana Library of Milan has announced that they are going to dismantle the Codex Atlanticus, a huge collection of [...]
I saw this editorial cartoon and I had to shout, “DON”T USE TAPE!!!”
Still, some mending is in order…
A website that I spend WAY too much time on is the social blog, Metafilter. There are about 65,000 users who trawl the internet in search of (theoretically) the best of the web. What the best consists of is frequently a topic of dispute, but just yesterday someone posted a collection of Book [...]
Sometimes people try to help out when books begin to fall apart. One of my favorites is the hammer and nail technique. Usually someone will either nail all the way through a book and bend the nail on the other side, OR if the nails don’t go through, they’ll add more nails on [...]
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