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| DISCARDED: the Facelift for Ex- library Books methuen:[sic]press, 2004, 28pps, stapleback, illustrated. 9.50ppd - MC, VISA, Paypal or check. You may enter a credit card order securely at : https://www.123pix. com/commerce/index.cfm?uid=333 A desktop handbook for quick and easy home repairs for ex-library books. ************** "...what I've seen is great! Instructions are easy to understand, and the visuals are very helpful. I believe this little book will be used a lot! Many thanks." - Linda @ Gilded Edge Fine Books "I have found many little pearls of wisdom that I hope will be useful to me in the future. As a former librarian, I found that many of your suggestions were already familiar, but there were quite of few that I did not know and many techniques that I found to be better than the ones I had known. So, kudos for a very useful little publication. I appreciate it and feel I got more than my money's worth." - Kathy @ Books in the Belfry "...it is a very useful booklet - and definitely worth its modest cost (just saving one book repays the cost) I like the way it gives options for fixing problems - starting with the simplest and moving on to more extreme ones - The book also emphasizes that these repairs should be used only on books with rather insignificant market or collectable value, where you want to salvage them or just improve their looks - NOT on scarce or valuable books." Chris Volk @ Bookfever/ Volk & Iams "Discarded Books is exceptionally well done. Lots of ideas I never thought of. Well-organized, easy to follow instructions, a great addition to my professional library - highly recommend!" Bonnie Scott @ Pegasus By-the-Sea Books This is a great little book. Not only for Ex-Library books. The many ideas and different ways of doing the various cleaning up are really for all books - that you choose to tackle. It stays within reach all the time and is used daily for ideas to clean up almost any kind of books. A lot of information in a great pamplet and a great tool for all booksellers (and people who love books). Joan White @ White Unicorn Books ******************* CONTENTS: • stuff you may need 4 • anatomy 101 6 • dirty book 8 • dirty dust jacket 9 • writing 10 • bookplates 11 • pockets, stickers, call tags or tape 12 • crayon 13 • cocked spine 14 • shaken hinge 15 • loose signature 16 • loose leaf 17 • torn leaf 18 • bumped corner 19 • missing free endpaper 20 • embossing 21 • damaged endpaper 22 • bugs 24 • naughty bits 25 • supplies 28 READ ME: This guide is intended to help extend the life and usefulness of books that have already lived a rich and full life as part of a library’s circulating collection. Regardless of what you may have learned from the Internet, fifty percent of library discards are utter trash, another forty percent are little more than reading copies and cleaned up can serve as very nice shelf copies. The other ten percent are books that are scarce in any condition and with a little bit of careful attention can be greatly improved upon. However there are a minute number of books that should not be ‘fixed’ by the amateur. One can easily turn a good book into scrap paper. It is more work for the conservator to correct a bad repair than to just restore the book. The author takes no responsibility for the mistakes of the reader: I will assume you have researched the damaged book and that it is not valuable enough to demand that it be repaired by a professional. If it has great monetary or sentimental value, it is probably best that it be left ‘as-is’ and/or restored by a professional conservator. So there. j godsey |
