Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 18:52:30 -0700 (PDT)
From: Tamar Lindsay <dicconf at yahoo.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Give Me That Old Time Technology!
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

--- On Mon, 8/23/10, mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us> wrote:=0A=0A> Tamar Lindsay =
wrote:=0A>>> A)=A0 Preserving paper technology with reports=0A>>> on Librar=
y of Congress activity=0A>> =0A>> There are books about that... AIUI the Lo=
C has=0A>> a chemical dip method to preserve fragile paper=0A>> books.=0A> =
=0A> Do you have a link? I'd love to do that to a lot of =0A> my Ace double=
s.=0A=0AI think I read about it on the Library of Congress=0Awebsite.  Unfo=
rtunately it takes some very high-tech=0Amaterials and tanks. Not something=
 to do at home.=0A*sigh*=0A <snip>=0A=0A>> C)  How to make and bake your ow=
n clay tablet or=0A>> writing in the Sumerian age.=0A> =0A> That would be h=
ard. On the other hand, I'd *love* =0A> one on how to rebind a book whose *=
cheap* glue =0A> is falling apart....=0A=0A"Somewhere on the net" I read th=
at you can buy the =0Aright kind of glue to do that.  You have to clamp=0At=
he pages really tightly so the glue won't suck=0Aup between them by capilla=
ry action and give you =0Aa solid block of reconstituted wood, and then =0A=
you brush the glue on just the edges you want =0Ato be glued, and stick the=
 spine back on.  =0AI haven't ever done it; never found the glue.=0A=0AI di=
d once see glue made for making your own=0Atear-off notepads, but obviously=
 it wasn't meant =0Afor long-term book binding.=0A=0A=Tamar=0A=0A=0A     =