leog68•4mo ago

That week I tried rebinding a textbook from 1993 and everything went wrong

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Oh man, I'm cracking up just reading this. "Everything went wrong" is probably the understatement of the century, right? I bet that book from 1993 was barely holding together with hope and old coffee stains. The spine probably disintegrated the second you breathed on it, turning into a little pile of ancient library dust. And then you're sitting there with a stack of loose pages that smell like a thrift store and wondering if super glue is a valid option. Honestly, if the glue didn't instantly dry in a lumpy mess and the pages didn't come out looking like a zigzag puzzle, you're already winning.

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foster.dylan4mo ago

everything went wrong" - man, I just gotta ask, when you say everything, do you mean like the glue dried instantly or the pages came out all crooked or what? That sounds like a nightmare. I've done some DIY stuff that went south, but rebinding a textbook from 1993? That's gotta be delicate work. Did the old spine just crumble to dust when you touched it? That's always the fear with old books, the paper gets brittle and the glue turns to powder. I'd be sweating bullets just trying to open it up without it falling apart in my hands.

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