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july-19th-club · 7 months

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went down to get some norbond (repair glue) at work today and on my coworker in Young Adult's cataloging cart there was. a young adult novel by cs pacat. already falling apart at the spine of course because the state of bookbinding today is abysmal and is the reason i go through ezbind So Fast just trying to preemptively reinforce every single thing that comes across my desk but ANYWAY. like. i have got to find out how mellowed down this novel is compared to her usual fare. like. some YA novels contain some racy bits for sure but i dont think the general pacat content could possibly be distilled into teen-friendly material and retain literally any of its x-ratedness. like. almost interested in finding out what a non-horny book by this woman would be like but also im sure i wouldnt enjoy it as much. like that would just be. a book. which is fine and i'm sure it's not bad! but i dont read pacat to read a book. i read her to read A...Book.....

#fascinating #almost felt like leaving a sticky note for coworker tho on the fucked up page. you know how when a book sees too much use #then the endpieces come apart and you can see the cloth backing there that is *supposed* to hold the signatures together?#(not that most mass market hardbacks have signatures anymore; they're all perfect-bound which is the misnomer of the industry)#that was happening on a brand new book. and by god the cloth was thin too. it was like . twelve little stupid strings just hanging there #they're all like that now #it's not quite as striking until you happen to be repairing a fair amount of older books #and then you realize that even ten fifteen years ago the backing was sturdier. there are more books with true signatures #and those older books might get beat up and tossed around and they dont look new anymore #but they dont rip apart in the dropoff bin nearly as fast as the books that are three years old #the repair i was doing this morning? year and a half. the glue just popped right out and took the whole endpiece with it #stupid as hell. makes me feel like mo from inkheart every time i do repairs

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