Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 22:17:11 -0400
From: mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: wtf? [WSFA] trying again - damn yahoo anyway
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Tamar Lindsay wrote:
> --- 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
<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.
<snip>
I *think* I was told hot glue might work - it is somewhat flexible.

mark

--
If wealth == power and if power corrupts, and absolute power
corrupts absolutely, what is the effect of monopolies and
billionaires on democracy?
    - whitroth, 2002