Man, that's brutal! I had a roommate leave a garden hose running in a raised bed once and it turned the whole thing into basically soup... took me three days of scooping mud out to salvage anything. Some people just don't think about the mess they're leaving behind for you to deal with.

Gotta disagree with you @sagelane, those things are way easier than a french press once you get the hang of it.

Glue has its place if the book isn't going to get rough treatment. But for anything you actually use, stitching wins every time, no contest.