Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 18:57:54 -0700 (PDT)
From: Tamar Lindsay <dicconf at yahoo.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: wtf? [WSFA] trying again - damn yahoo anyway
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:

> Tamar Lindsay wrote:
>>> A)  Preserving paper technology with reports
>>> on Library of Congress activity
>>
>> There are books about that... AIUI the LoC has
>> a chemical dip method to preserve fragile paper
>> books.
>
> Do you have a link? I'd love to do that to a lot of
> my Ace doubles.

I think I read about it on the Library of Congress
website.  Unfortunately it takes some very high-tech
materials and tanks. Not something to do at home.
*sigh*
<snip>

>> C)  How to make and bake your own clay tablet or
>> writing in the Sumerian age.
>
> That would be hard. On the other hand, I'd *love*
> one on how to rebind a book whose *cheap* glue
> is falling apart....

"Somewhere on the net" I read that you can buy the
right kind of glue to do that.  You have to clamp
the pages really tightly so the glue won't suck
up between them by capillary action and give you
a solid block of reconstituted wood, and then
you brush the glue on just the edges you want
to be glued, and stick the spine back on.
I haven't ever done it; never found the glue.

I did once see glue made for making your own
tear-off notepads, but obviously it wasn't meant
for long-term book binding.

=Tamar