posted 13 June 2002 08:33 PM
the spines of my Arabic dictionary and my Kulliyaat-e-Iqbaal have come unglued. whatever shall i do? should i try to buy book glue (if there is such a thing) and do it myself? should i have it done? where?
help!
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lagatta
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posted 13 June 2002 09:07 PM
If it is a workhouse book such as a bilingual dictionary, you can get library tape in any good office-supply shop. A precious book or one you care about as an object (family Bible or Qoran, etc...) should be consigned to a bookbinder.
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posted 14 June 2002 01:35 AM
It all depends on the construction of the book originally. If the book was constructed in signatures, then it can be repaired expensively but easily by taking it to a bookbinder. Price around, I don't know how or whether the guild regulates pricing, but I'm sure there's a range from the more industrial library contractors to the highly skilled craftsperson. If your book was machine cut so that it is simply a stack of sheets, I suppose it is, unattractively, possible to glue it back together again. This would be cheap. But if you have to get the book rebound, I can't imagine the cost being less than purchasing the book anew.
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posted 14 June 2002 02:14 AM
Most certainly take your book to a professional binder or replace it if you can. Don't try to tape it. I was a librarian for many years and repaired many books with all kinds of tape and with a heavy duty stapler. But these were usually ephemeral materials which would soon be discarded. Book binding is best left to the professional. It sounds like your books are precious treasures. Treat them as such. Don't start scotch taping them because they'll only end up looking terrible. (Now you can go to your dictionary web site and look up "ephemeral". Librarians often use that word. Three cheers to you if you already know its meaning.
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posted 15 June 2002 09:26 AM
Precious books: have repaired by a professional binder, and then do not use. Get a paperback copy for daily thumbing. Ephemera*: repair with duct tape. More durable than the book itself, and takes coloured marker well.
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posted 13 June 2002 08:33 PM
should i try to buy book glue (if there is such a thing) and do it myself? should i have it done? where?
