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   Message 446,774 of 448,027   
   Paul S Person to Dorsey   
   Re: Chapters/Indigo   
   21 Nov 25 09:04:33   
   
   From: psperson@old.netcom.invalid   
      
   On Thu, 20 Nov 2025 12:26:16 -0500 (EST), kludge@panix.com (Scott   
   Dorsey) wrote:   
      
   >Paul S Person   wrote:   
   >>Given the problems with trade paperbacks with "perfect" bindings back   
   >>some decades ago (at least two of them, having split into large pieces   
   >>on first reading, dissolved into individual pages on second reading),   
   >>assurance that the book in question is well bound is comforting.   
   >   
   >Remove remaining hot glue (it may just crumble away if the book is old   
   >enough) and recement with a flexible urethane adhesive like 3M 08061 or Goop.   
      
   I hate to say it but, if I am not keeping it, recycling it seems to be   
   the simplest solution.   
      
   From individual pages it came, to individual pages it shall return.   
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   "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,   
   Who evil spoke of everyone but God,   
   Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"   
      
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