"Bookworm" is a cute thing to call a voracious reader, but actual bookworms—as well as microorganisms and time—break down the ...

TV hit The Repair Shop is on BBC One on Wednesday – and while we can’t all mend treasures like its host Jay Blades and the ...

Bindery officials are perfectly willing to admit, moreover, that some of the Treasure Room books they repair are worth ... a vital component of book-binding glue, is also used in explosives ...

Working right from home you can bind books in small quantities and repair antique books. Bookbinding equipment is very inexpensive to purchase and there are even construction plans available that ...

For those in the audience who aren’t well versed in wrangling dead trees, a large press with a lot of clamping pressure can be used for binding ... to make or repair books, but they also tend ...

This guide will show you how to bind books by ... for the binding will happen. Bands are added using coarse linen thread. After stitching these in place and knotting, glue is added and finally ...

Harvard University announced Wednesday that it removed the human skin binding from a gruesome book in its library. The book, called Des destinées de l’âme, was published in the 1880s by French ...

Harvard Library and the Harvard Museum Collections Returns Committee concluded that the human remains used in the books ...

Harvard University removed the human skin binding from a 19th-century book called "Des Destinies de l'Ame," a meditation on life after death, which was held at one of its libraries. The university ...

Adam Minter - author of Junkyard Planet and Secondhand 'In this powerfully argued account, Perzanowski vividly illustrates how the current era of 'planned obsolescence' has eroded our fundamental ...

“After careful study, stakeholder engagement, and consideration, Harvard Library and the Harvard Museum Collections Returns Committee concluded that the human remains used in the book’s ...