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Quick Tricks – Temporary Repairs to Covers

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Required Materials
• Cloth Tape (colour choice)
• Radiant Bond Glue • Waxed Paper
You can prolong the life of a book by using these
“quick tricks” to avoid later and more serious
damage to covers of books.
1. Borrowers in pulling a book off the shelf, will start tears in
the top of the cloth spine or the hinge of the cover. Place a
piece of waxed paper between spine and contents, repair
2 tear in either spine or hinge by working Radiant Bond into
fibres of cloth. Put waxed paper around mended spine and
allow to dry.
3 2. Sometimes a book is pulled off of the shelf by the bottom
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of the cloth spine, starting a tear in the hinge. Repair with
Radiant Bond as described above.
3. The bottom edge of the cover often is frayed by friction with the shelf. Touch up and work
frayed threads into place using Radiant Bond on your finger. Then allow to dry.
4. Lower corners of covers become frayed easily. Touch up corners with Radiant Bond and
allow to dry. Radiant Bond dries to a transparency.

Repairing Worn Corners

Required Materials Use 4" Cloth Book Tape of a colour compati-
• Cloth Tape (colour choice) ble with the colour of the binding (or if book
• Scissors has been rebacked—the same colour as the
rebacking). Cut four 4" square pieces.

Inside of Cover
square protrudes beyond corner 3
1 Centre 4" square of tape diagonally Pull centre triangular piece over
over corner, making sure that 1/2" of
corner and smooth down firmly
on cover.
of book.

Inside of Cover Inside of Cover
2 Open cover of book. Make two cuts Pull remaining two triangular pieces
and line up cut with edge of lining 4
over edges of cover and over centre
to edge of book. Start from corner
triangle. Repeat same procedure on
paper of cover. other three corners.
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