http://www.metafilter.com/tags/bookrepair Posts tagged with 'bookrepair' at MetaFilter. Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:35:49 -0800 Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:35:49 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/74393/Book%2Drepair The Dartmouth College Library hosts a <a href="http://www.dartmouth.edu/~preserve/repair/repairindex.htm">Simple Book Repair Manual</a>, which teaches you how to repair common problems such as <a href="http://www.dartmouth.edu/~preserve/repair/html/tornpages.htm">torn pages</a> and <a href="http://www.dartmouth.edu/~preserve/repair/html/airdry.htm">wet books</a>. For more complicated procedures, the Alaska State Library put together a <a href="http://www.library.state.ak.us/hist/conman.html">training manual,</a> with illustrations of repair procedures. (Full <a href="http://www.library.state.ak.us/hist/hist_docs/conman/conman.pdf">PDF</a> here.) There is also a <a href="http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/don/don.html">book conservation dictionary</a> hosted by the Stanford conservation department, which explains many of the terms used. tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.74393 Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:35:49 -0800 book bookrepair books conservation dictionary manual repair tornpages wetbooks Upton O'Good