A Step-by-Step Guide to Book Repair for Beginners

This kind of repair is used when the spine if off/loose, and the hinges attaching the boards to the textblock are weakened or detached.

Not appropriate for special collections / rare items.

[claricewilson]

Not sure how I ended up here but this is incredibly soothing to watch.

[LindaVarey]

I’ve just found your channel and subscribed.. Bookbinding was my main job for 25 years until the company closed the factory in 2008.. I absolutely loved this work.. Hand sewing and machine sewing book spine with end papers.. I made book hard back cases individually to of the book sizes, and I also done the library book repair that you’re actually doing in this video.. Not only did the factory repair and refurbish library books we also made up 12 monthly volumes at customers request of Medical Journals and monthly magazines into one yearly volume..

[petercook-jones]

Brilliant, calm and collected, no panic, no stupid music, I can now feel confident to re-do four very rare books that have been assigned to me, I am a leather worker and can now start to expand my skills, thanks to you both, good camera work.

[vkkwidm]

Thank you, Marianne, for a calm comprehensive and easy to follow guide. I now have confidence to repair some of my late grandmother's cook books, hoping that I can obtaine the materials in the UK.

[chrisosborn]

Very informative and I've repaired a couple of old books now. Thanks Marianne.

[tukavi]

Thank you very much for this tutorial. My husband has an old bible he absolutely love, but the cover was completely ripped. With this video I was able to recover it!!

[ellaniki]

Thank you for showing us how to repair an old books, your voice is so relaxing and makes me calm😊

[rarejer]

I am very grateful for the series. I volunteer at my library, and these are the issues I find. Thank you!

[a.g.h.]

Wow! I really needed this after finding an 1858 edition of Shakespeare. Helped me greatly in the processes of repair. Thank you!

[RWBHere]

Thank-you for patiently showing us each step of the process. Greetings from another left-handler!

[jessiearies]

Your instructions were well explained and very helpful. I need to repair 2 substantial hard cover books, 1 being a Dictionary, the other a very old Recipe Book. Thank you!

[johnbigboote]

One of the most inspiring and informative how-to videos on Youtube. Thanks Marianne!

[stxrynn]

I have some older reference materials that need this work. Thank you for making this instructional video. I will be starting this work soon and needed a refresher on proper methods. Thank you.

[metro]

Excellent educational video where each step is explained fully so even I understood how to correctly repair my old books. Thanks a million.

[amyconsiglio]

Thank you so much for this video. It allowed me to repair a book my grandmother gave me, that was completely falling apart.

[gregorybox]

Hi!! It's March 2021 and I just watched this. Excellently done. Now I can repair my old friends.

[Kalethekill]

Thanks for this! I've been trying to find out how to repair a book I have that only one cover came off but all I had found were ones where it had come off the text block but not from the spine. This is so helpful!

[susanemadai]

Wow, thank you so much for the video. I have to watch it again and again before I start, that for sure. My puppy destroyed lots of my favourite books, cook books, children books last year, so I have lots of work to do. Thanks again.

[sincostanian]

Such a wonderful tutorial, so much attention to detail and patience. Thank you!

[patriciacharles]

Fascinating. Taken in by the detailed but simple instructions. Wish I could access this service to fix my Bible and Missal.