ARGH sounds like my dad… he WILL obsess about this… to the extent of having made himself a special bone tool to bend the pages… so that the spine isn’t messed up and the book will be happy to open to any and all pages, And stay open on any page. He’ll spend ages doing this, and the book will be twice as wide afterwards and not want to keep the covers closed at all… but clearly, that is THE way to do it…
Well, I am sure that as the printing press had just been invented books would have been very rare when you were at school. Surely you were apprenticed to Gutenberg?
Then there’s this . . . ttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgKbyhuqxuU
ARGH sounds like my dad… he WILL obsess about this… to the extent of having made himself a special bone tool to bend the pages… so that the spine isn’t messed up and the book will be happy to open to any and all pages, And stay open on any page. He’ll spend ages doing this, and the book will be twice as wide afterwards and not want to keep the covers closed at all… but clearly, that is THE way to do it…
Gosh, I would think many of today’s paperback would shed pages under such treatment. Obviously not a method for ebooks!
My thoughts exactly!
I remember being taught precisely that, early in primary school. Ahhhh memories.
Well, I am sure that as the printing press had just been invented books would have been very rare when you were at school. Surely you were apprenticed to Gutenberg?