From: "Madeleine Yeh" <myeh at wap.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: wtf? [WSFA] trying again - damn yahoo anyway
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 00:06:15 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 22:17:11 -0400
  mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us> wrote:
> 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

   A book with a "perfect" glue binding that is bigger
than small paperbacks can be seperated into small
sections.  Those sections whipstitched together and then
the whole sewn together with thread and tape.   Not the
best method for lying flat and it requires enough of a
margin to sacrifice but the pages will stay together and
can be put in a normal book binding.
     Preserving an ace double would be hard since the
paper is weak.   If it is completely falling apart you can
think about deacidifying as well as rebinding.