First Page Repair

[u/mcintyre236]

I've bound, made paper from scratch and changed a soft cover to leather. The only thing for this I have 0 experience for is page repair, my goal is not to restore this book back to original quality, just to give it a new life by strengthening the pages to prevent any further damage when reading. I plan to replace the cover completely with a new one, rebinding and any other repairs to make sure it holds. How do I begin the page repair? The pages are not fragile, they do not crumble even close to the current damage is pliable and there doesn't seem to be water damage. No, I have not done my research into this yet, I just got back from buying this. I'm starting my search now but was hoping any of your expertise could give me some guidance.

[u/brigitvanloggem]

There is a wonderful book about repairing books, free to download. Google for ‘alaska library book repair’ and the PDF will pop up.

[u/mcintyre236 → u/brigitvanloggem]

Thank you

[u/sangfoudre → u/brigitvanloggem]

Thanks too