If you read books
regularly perhaps you have experienced finding an old book with solidified and
cracked glue inside the base of its covers. If you try to unfold the pages of
such book in order to read it unimpededly, it is most likely that the glue is going
to break and part of the pages could be detached from the body of the book in a
way in which you aren't going to be able to return them as they were seconds
ago. These pages will always show off your book when it is closed which is
something that will irritate both your gaze and your conscience. Why
conscience? Because while wanting to fix something that was not fully
functioning well, you've ruined it even more.
Such a situation
could be prevented. I am about to share with you a technique that will make you
able to receive maximum enjoyment from reading texts on physical media. This
technique is applicable mostly on paperback books. No matter whether they are
new or old, used or not.
If you are still
reading and you are willing to prepare your books for reading-with-pleasure the
first thing you have to do is to follow the manipulations below.
Take the book
that you are going to read and put it on a flat surface with the title cover
page against you. Then place the book ninety degrees to the surface, on the
side that you most surely see when the book is on your shelf of books. This is
the part of the book on which most often its title is written. It happens, of
course, sometimes this side of the book to be marked only with the number of a
series. It is even possible that nothing has been written on this side of the
book. This is meaning that the pages have only front and back covers. Believe
me, in most of the cases these books are not books that we can call "books
of great importance". This does not exclude the possibility that such
books are very old or with a very special cover, which does not allow the
printing of text in this part of the book. But let's go back on the technique
that we are studying.
Since you have
placed the book in front of you so that it is perpendicular to the supporting
surface, you have to open its two covers simultaneously. By doing it, the
covers will stand parallel to the supporting surface. Then, start by taking ten
or twenty pages (actually maybe the best number here is fifteen) on both sides
of the block of pages and press the inner side of the pages in order to soften
the glue in the base of the book. The base of the book is something that we
talked about earlier, something that you just placed perpendicular to the surface
in front of you. If we can call the short and long side of the book through
which we open the book its main entrance, the opposite side should be its back.
Okay, now you have to repeat the exercise in which
you open pages from both of the sides of the book until you divide it
completely in two equal parts. You can even look at what length (in pages) is
the book and split it on two. By taking the book into your hands as it is
already split you can bend it a little more. The idea here is to slightly crush
the glue at the base so the book could easily be divided into two equal parts,
respectively, it will be divided into parts that you have chosen and have
already folded. After you close the book, you can also mash the book at its
base, as you have already made the pages of the book to stay a bit open and now
it is better to return them to their original state.
The whole
operation is valid for old books with broken-dry glue between the pages. After
this procedure is being made every book will be ready for reading-with-pleasure.
Finally, you can check if the book price is glued on its back cover in case
anyone quite recklessly and improvident glued it there.
Now the book is
completely ready for reading.
No comments:
Post a Comment