How To Open a New Book How To Open a New Book …a document with historical significance? Found via The Dusty Bookshelf in Manhattan, KS. September 1, 2010 by birdie Uncategorized 5
Oh my god – I was taught
Oh my god – I was taught this in elementary school and I still do it to this day!
I work in a library
I work in a library preservation office and there’s a copy of this hanging on the wall.
no cutting
Note that these instructions postdate uncut pages. As a machine, the book keeps on changing!
Perfect binding
These instructions also predate so-called “perfect” binding, which would probably not withstand treatment of this kind without falling to pieces.
A Bookbinders View
While these instructions are correct for a hard case bound book that has been section sewn, I have told people how to treat books and they never listen. Even after they have just spent hundreds of dollars on fixing a book! Also this technique would not work with a “paperback”. See Perfect Binding comment above.