I'm not sure the best is available via retail. It's an active culture glue (like yogurt!) that I've only ever seen when I worked in book repair in a library. You want something flexible... maybe epoxy?
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Laga - Jan 21, 2009 12:23:59 pm PST #8314 of 28476
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Ginger - Jan 21, 2009 12:38:03 pm PST #8315 of 28476
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Acid-free PVA glue. Weldbond is pretty available. I think Elmer's has some acid-free versions, but standard Glue-all is not.
Polter-Cow - Jan 21, 2009 1:41:51 pm PST #8316 of 28476
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Thanks, guys!
I found this:
4 oz. should be enough, right? I think I could probably repair my sun-melted copy of Jane Eyre, too.
Oh, it does look like I could find Weldbond at a local crafts store or something pretty easily. And that will work?
Why does it need to be acid-free? What would happen if I used regular Elmer's glue or rubber cement or something? Or, like, a hot glue gun?
Once I purchase something, I will be back to find out if there's anything special I need to do to make sure I glue it together right. I don't have a vise or anything.
Connie Neil - Jan 21, 2009 1:43:48 pm PST #8317 of 28476
brillig
Why does it need to be acid-free?
The acids in the glue will eat the paper, and you'll be doing this again in a while.
Of course, if you don't care about the paper of your books . . .
Polter-Cow - Jan 21, 2009 1:59:34 pm PST #8318 of 28476
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Acids eating paper? That's science-fiction mumbo-jumbo.
Connie Neil - Jan 21, 2009 2:04:43 pm PST #8319 of 28476
brillig
Acids eating paper? That's science-fiction mumbo-jumbo.
Sure, you little whipper-snapper. That lovely booky smell you get when you walk into a library? That's the smell of books dying an acidy death.
Polter-Cow - Jan 21, 2009 2:06:45 pm PST #8320 of 28476
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
That's horrible!
Connie Neil - Jan 21, 2009 2:07:07 pm PST #8321 of 28476
brillig
Whipper-snapper. Snapper of whips? Therefore, is Indiana Jones a whipper-snapper?
Connie Neil - Jan 21, 2009 2:07:36 pm PST #8322 of 28476
brillig
That's horrible!
Yup. I love it and hate it at the same time.
Fay - Jan 21, 2009 2:26:50 pm PST #8323 of 28476
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
That's the smell of books dying an acidy death.
And so they are! Alas that they are so;
To die, even as they to perfection grow.
joins Sunil in the traumatised corner, and tries to ignore the tiny rustling screams of dying books.