plutarch:

In all likelihood individual buyers won't be able to make a dent. We're talking saving a couple of pennies per book, which isn't much until you multiply it by a hundred million books a year. Then we get into some half-way serious money.

Bookbinders these days don't intend books to last. In effect you are only renting the words! I've actually found that my paperbacks seem to last longer than the hardbound volumes, and I didn't know why. Now I do.

Perhaps there's someone out there who knows how to repair books or even to do preventive maintenance to keep them from suffering a # of the spine.

I did see somewhere a kit to repair books but cannot remember now where it was. Levenger's, perhaps?

Ted


TEd