Damage Done by Inexperienced Bookbinders

[@KorriWass]

Just found tour channel and all I can say is, “OMG, you’re awesome!” Love your style and in awe of your knowledge! Looking forward to,watching them all! Thanks for sharing your experiences and knowledge!

[@Nyx_x33]

I know you don't post content much any more but I see your interactions with other recent comments so I have hope! I feel this may be an ignorant question but why the 7-year requirement for restoration apprenticeship? I'm an aspiring "book doctor" but I'm actively trying to avoid universities as I feel they have become exploitative. Any advice you can offer would be greatly appreciated. And if not, please know that your content is so, so helpful and lovely!

[@nejiniisan1265]

The second book look like some emergency repair, so it is somehow forgivable. But the first one, gosh, I have no words.

Your videos are very good, especially for beginners in bookbinding such as myself. Not a lot of info in my country on bookbinding, so these are treasures!

[@channelsixtysix066]

My book repair group therapy session, will go something like this - "Hello, My Name Is SS, ..... I'm An Inexperienced Bookbinder, And I've Damaged Some Of My Maths Text Books" I hope to redeem myself and repair the repairs I did out of desperation at the time. 😬

[@BookRestorer]

This is funny! School textbooks are one thing. Inexperienced book repair on antiquarian books is another. Just don't do it, leave them alone.

[@channelsixtysix066]

@@BookRestorer My college books that I've "worked" on, are a couple of paperbacks and one hardback. They aren't worth anything monetarily, only to me as reference books. Though I would like to restore them. I do know my limitations and will not work on old books, like the 86 year old calculus book, I have. I enjoy my books, physics, electronic engineering, computing and mathematics. My "repairs" only involved the covers, NOT the text block.

[@tinovanderzwan]

1)im not a pro myself but i've been doing book restoring now for 25 years and i have become quite a pro at it all this by learning from the books themselves they have a story to tell in wich way they where made and if you do it differently that what the books tell you than you are doing it wrong i started off with books dumped by libraries and bookshops and i can say i f## up quite a number of them but it wasn't a waste since most of them where missing pages anyway

[@ButchHolladay]

My name is Butch,lol. anyway Ive have taken a thomas nelson large print and pulled off the paper cover and rcovered it with calfskin leather. my second one, it came a tad short on a corner being the pages were angeled and tried rounding the leather...I live below Athens TN, wish we had a binder here, would love to learn the craft...I have a few supplies, but not going crazy to make those big mistake. thanks for this video.

[@familyplannumbrer2424]

Amen girl it drives me nuts ill tell id rather wrestle a polar bear that to see that stuff done.

[@tinovanderzwan]

2)its all about experience and if you f## up then you found out how not to do it now 25 years on i basicaly only work on 16th 17th and 18th century books mostly for well astablished collectors and dealers and since for me its mostly hobby and since im a collector myself i like to get payed in 16-17-18th century books wich for most dealers is actualy cheaper than just paying me evendough the market value might me more than what i would ask for the restoration so everyone is happy in the end

[@timeschangepress5332]

aman too that

[@tinovanderzwan]

3)amanda on your channel i notice that you have a stight lack of knolege about the realy early books like the 17th 18th century this is probably not your fault since the american market isn't as big as in europe there are simply not many early books around in the us i live in leiden in the netherlands where there has been a univesity since 1574 many collectors live in leiden since quite a number of them are professors at the university

[@plantin110]

stight lack of knolege .... quite

[@channelsixtysix066]

@@plantin110 English is not his first language.