Man, take the counteroffer if the money and title fix your real problem, but get it in writing first.

Have you tried it on a leather spine yet without the wax rubbing off on the cover? I always figured floss was a gimmick and stuck with linen thread for years, mostly because I watched a guy wreck a Bible with it back in 2019 and it put me off the whole idea. Then my thread kept snapping on a tight spine and I grabbed some unwaxed floss as a last resort, and it pulled the signatures in way tighter than my usual stuff. The mint thing is real though, I did one book with flavored floss and it smelled like a dentist office for two weeks.

The crumb keeps cooking from the inside heat for a while after it leaves the oven, so cutting early is kind of like pulling a steak off the grill and slicing it right away. What got me was the steam. If you let it sit in the pan those first few minutes, all that moisture has nowhere to go and it soaks right back into the bottom crust. I started moving mine to a rack after 10 minutes and waiting a full hour, and the gumminess just stopped.