My 1985 copy of 'The Hobbit' went from a sad lump to a proper book in about a week

I mean, it was a total wreck, the cover was hanging on by a thread and half the pages were loose. I spent a few hours each night for a week re-sewing the sections and putting on a new cloth spine. The difference is wild, it actually sits flat on a shelf now. Has anyone else brought a book back from the dead like that?

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mark_hernandez1218d ago

That's some solid work. Did the same for a falling apart copy of Dune last year, feels good to save them.

richard_shah18d ago

Oh man, that reminds me of my buddy who tried to fix his old copy of The Hobbit. He used so much glue the pages are basically a solid block now, can't even open it. Sounds like you had way better luck with your Dune project, mark_hernandez12. There's a real art to not making it worse, and it's so satisfying when a book gets a second life. He just stares at his brick of a book on the shelf as a warning to us all.