In a world of repulsive excessive consumerism and thoughtless waste, what a sweet, gentle, and positive video showing how to maintain and restore lovely things! Thank you, I loved this!

Nice tutorial. I'm not sure this will work for my Tunnel in the Sky (by Heinlein) 1955 paperback where the individual pages came loose from the paperback cover. There is a lot of yellow glue on the cover. The pages came off as individual pages, not as a block. And yes, they are yellow - cheap paper. And yes, I can probably buy a copy real cheap at a used book store, but this is "my" copy from childhood.

I have discovered another advantage of living in a dry climate, no book eating insects!

My favorite books about books are: Miniature Books by Anne Bronner; The Library Book by Orlean; Remarkable Diaries; The Man Who Loved Books Too Much; The Most Beautiful Libraries in the World by Bosser; A Bibliography of the Works of Mark Twain; 500 Handmade Books; The Madman's Library; The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books; The Roll of the Scroll; Bizzarre Books by Ash; and the Know-it-All. I'm halfway through Treasures of the New York Public Library and it belongs in this list as well. The irony is that many of these books I listened to as audiobooks.

I'm looking for a way to reduce the darker color of a water stain on a light colored cloth bound book. I've seen interior pages improved with adding more water and drying with tissue and pressure. I had intended to give it to friend when it looked great, but now I've stained the spine. ((((( Its not an expensive book but one I happen to have and not need anymore. I'd like it to be more presentable than it is right now. The polish method won't do for this one. Got clues?

Addall is another good metasearch

Very helpful, thank you 😊❤

Thank for sharing the knowledge

Excellent video. Thank you for sharing your research and love of books.

African or European?

Typical casual American disingenuousness, to be sure, once we arrive at dust jackets. Double check your wild west mortgages.

I was hoping to get guidance on old books, water-damaged, whose pages are stuck together (not newer glossy pages). I think I picked up a comment that there is no way to separate these. They are gonners.

Great job and thanks for the information. Can you cover a book that has paint stained on the cover? Thanks for any help.

I've received a book that's been damaged in transit that is a hardback. The book is warped along the vertical (can't think how to explain it better) as opposed to the horizontal displayed in the video. Do you have any specific advice for tackling this? Thank you for any help.

Very well done. Thank you 😊

Thanks, this feels a bit bootlegged, but it works very well.

Jess. If you still follow this: What kind of lighter fluid do I use? Butane as for cigarette lighters, or benzine as in barbecue fire starter?

Thanks. It worked

so happy to find your channel! im just this past year getting into reading, and finding i love older books and many need repair, this is so helpful! thankyou!

Thank you so much. It really worked. The hardcovers of Amazon kdp all have a warped front cover and I had almost given up on them. Your system straightened one perfectly.

I found a 1952 Anne Frank with out the dust jacket . But it says early edition. What does that mean?

This is a VERY helpful video, thanks so much for posting it. A question though: at 4:20 or so, you show a light colored book with dark rectangles on the front and back covers, which you say is extremely faded. This implies that the cover was originally black, yet the cloth on the inside of the edges of the covers is the same light color as seen on the outside. How would fabric INSIDE fade? Is it possible that dark colored books somehow transferred color to a book that was in fact light colored?

I grew up poor on the eastside of Long Beach and then it west side of San Bernardino. I’m Cambodian/lao American male, so needless to say reading is my guilty pleasure. Isn’t that crazy. Now I’m older, out of the hood, and I started to embrace things that make me happy. Pro wrestling, yo-yos, and books. So I look for books from my childhood. I’m currently on the search for all the old goosebumps, but only through 2nd hand stores. I just started a few months ago and I’m up to 200+ books with notable titles too. From Hannibal to water for elephants to push. I read them too. I’m working on building a library in my loft with my wife. Can’t wait!!

This is great, and I have to say that I just did this with a very old cookbook (Betty Crocker 1950) that my Mum had. And it came out perfectly. Now because I'm a little cheeky and a big fan of Friends, I have to say this because of the stuck pages... "Chandler!" 💜

Very pro upload. Subbed. On the ball point paper where you can see the dented in paper on the back (13:48) it might be worthwhile to try to push the dents out with the eraser or other object on the back side before trying to erase on the ink side.

actually quite useful

What a great video! I have a vintage cookbook passed down from my grandma to my mom and now my mom has passed it on to me. It needs a lot of love since some pages of the book have fallen loose, the spine is ripped apart, how do I fix a paperback with that amount of damage?

Thank you!

This was a wonderful tutorial. Thank you!❤

Are those props from the actual show

I do not know how to remove yellow stains from papers in a book…

What about paperback care? The reason I'm asking is I have not seen paperback care yet. So please if you have a tutorial about that, send me it.

Great video, thank you! Just bought some used books and this helped!

Thats not foxing. Foxing happens when most of the page turns red or dark orange. The clips you have shown is caused by mould. It is not mould but the paper has been damaged. It can also spread to other books

Nice work. That was very helpful. Thank you

This is awful and you clearly don't know how a book is constructed. The "netting" is called mull and what you are doing with this method is causing further damage to the book. No trained book conservator or bookbinder would advocate what you show in this video. If you actually loved books, you'd learn how to fix them properly.

I wonder if shoe cream would work as well, I’m trying to find the wax version as shown in the video for a royal blue book I have but can’t find the color I need that’s not a cream

Love that you are matching your outfit to the books you are presenting. Kudos fellow Ravenclaw! 💙🦅

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Thank you, that worked.

Your passion truly shines through.

This a very cool and interesting video. You might want to put a glove on that right hand tho.

Wow this is so amazing. I've always wanted to see the collector's edition of page to screen. Thank you for this video.

Any tips on where I can find a blue polish that is solid? I’m only finding the cream on gel ones

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Absolutely amazing! I am so impressed with all the hand detailing work, so beautiful, great job!

Great video! I wanted to see this place when visiting England, but didn’t have time.. this was the next best thing

I'm new to learning about book restoration. I suppose the scent will evaporate, but I'm wondering - will the lighter fluid leaves residue behind that makes the books more flammable? This isn't a criticism, I simply don't know the science :)

Well thought out and planned. I enjoyed watching.