ARRRRRRRRRGH BOOK TAPE AAAAAAAAAAAARGGH

Before (with tape on spine):


After (with tape on spine):




Conclusion: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHH!


And the pain continues here on their book-repair business website. A terrifying example of fail-binding follows:

"REPAIR YOUR BOOK YOURSELF ONLY IF YOU DON'T CARE WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE

I know, we all want and need to save $$$$

Packing tape is ugly, but it can hold a book together. That way all the notes you wrote by the recipes will not be lost forever.

White school glue is not flexible. Using it will make the pages stiff. But if this does not matter to you, go ahead and use it. I have a friend who owns a used book store and he uses "Tacky Glue". He swears by it."

Bookbinder's carts

I am fascinated by these bookbinder's cargo bike/carts...do these itinerant bookbinders go about doing house (library?) calls?

yellow bookbinder's bakfiets, originally uploaded by keeshu.

Helsinki, originally uploaded by Ozan™.

Snowy update.

Cost of parking at Midway airport: $58.50
Cost of getting my car towed and ticketed if they declare a snow emergency in Evanston when I'm out of town: $100

Cost of being frustrated because neither of these are good options because I am poor poor poor: priceless.



In other news, my boyfriend is TEH AWESOME. He bought me eggplant and daikon radish papyrus from Hiromi Paper...AND he got me the 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Pop-up book that I'd been drooling over! I posted about the pop-up book over on the Kilgarlin blog.

Fossilized update.

Interesting spine lining.

It says "Chatterbox".

Oscars.

Upcoming "HIV/AIDS educational material from Nigeria" Exhibit

This is the poster I made for an upcoming exhibit about "HIV/AIDS Educational Materials from Nigeria". It's going up December 1st, and it's been a lot of work but good experience.

 


Also it is winterish now! We had snow on Sunday night and it's been pretty cold. BRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!