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Repairing Loose Paperback Covers

Paperback covers tend to come off Required Materials
very easily. To prevent this from hap- • Mending Brush • Radiant Bond Glue
pening, reinforce your paperback with • Waxed Paper
Radiant Bond.
1 Holding the contents of the paper-
back in one hand and the cover-
halves in the other, pull the cover
completely away from the contents.

2 Brush Radiant Bond onto the
exposed backs of the signatures and
allow to dry.

3 Then coat the inside of the spine of
the cover with Radiant Bond and
reattach the cover properly to the
contents. Place wax paper between
the cover-halves and the first and
last pages of the book.
Put under weight overnight.

Repairing A Torn Spine

1 To repair a torn spine, simply brush
Radiant Bond over the torn sections
and allow to dry.

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