Book Repair on a Budget: Consolidating a Textblock

Sometimes, publishers' bindings tend to break apart at the spine where the adhesive fails or spine linings age. This is a demonstration of how to repair the textblock (pages of the book) when it has split.

[creativesparks]

The thumbnail is exactly what’s happening to my book.
I got SOOO lucky to have found this.
Hopefully whatever she says can help

Edit: just did it & OMG THANK YOU SO MUCH 😭 I’m amazed! I can’t even recognize the section that was messed up! Looks BRAND NEW!

[CarynCaldwell]

That was very helpful! It feels like so many book repair videos require some pretty specialized supplies, but this was all stuff my small school library either has on hand or can substitute for. Thanks!

[ladyofwildrose]

Thank you sooo much! Sooo simple! I wore out my favorite soft cover Bible which is now split in two. I had no clue how to put it back together - I thought it would be so much more complicated than it is and it's been in disrepair for many years. I now know how to put it back together thanks to your simple tutorial. Very grateful.🥰

[GTaichou]

Thank you for sharing! A gifted paperback had pages pop out today. I am so glad to know there is an elegant and simple way to repair it!

[Joeyzhou]

Thank you very much. You just saved my one of a kind Bible I bought over 20 years ago.

[Phymaths]

If I could give a heart to a video, I would give this video a heart. Just love to see a book getting repaired. ❤

[cocofleur]

I really needed to see this because I just ordered my hard cover book and at first I just lost one page and then I saw her losing more than one page and then finally the whole book fell apart. As a customer obviously that really annoys me but as a writer it’s devastating in a way because I worked so hard on it but thank you for posting this

[JAFFER]

Thank you so much, gonna try it on my study text.

[channelsixtysix]

I had to repair some of my text books and guessed what had to be done. Watching your video, confirmed what I did was correct, repairing a hardcover textbook. I've got a 12kg anvil. I think that will do a good job at clamping.

[ethanyeshayacomedy]

Thank you!! I just used this technique on my nice hardcover copy of Salem’s Lot. I was bummed when a chunk of the pages separated from the spine, but this technique seemed to have worked!

[AntonandSinan]

Thank you very much for this, I have a 1956 pocket paperback book that needs rescuing, will use this technique to consolidate the textblock. Merci!

[trackie]

Fantastic! Now I’m wondering if my local library needs volunteers to do this work. I think I’d love it!

[shalafax]

thanks so much for i was able to repair my players handbook for dnd

[blackfin]

Very helpful, needed this to repair an old ttrpg book

[hermajesty]

Is hot glue an option??? Such a wonderfully clear tutorial. I have several old loved books I am going to use this technique on.

[Mark-pxtl]

How do you fix a book when its cover comes off but the pages stayed together?

[vdog]

Thank you. This was very helpful thank you!

[jimmyjam]

what would you use on the edges of the hard back you fixed? I have a number of older books that have the leather pulling away from the book on the edge. I have glued the cover to the inside sheet to secure but now i wonder what I should put on the edges of the book to keep it from pulling apart.

[ruth]

Hi! it was so cool to know I could fix some of my books this way!
I have a sketch book that's glue bound and individual pages come spilling out of it...
While having papers fall out in a public setting and having a cool person pick it up with you is a great, movie worthy scene, its wildly embarrassing to have it happen IRL
Could you please suggest some methods to fix my sketch book or perhaps group them in a way through which I can keep them in a book form without loosing the details at the top of my drawings?
Thank you!

[jayroland]

"and the publisher's adhesive starts to break down"....since when did book publishers use adhesives? Seriously though, a pretty good demonstration, thanks for posting.