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Shoutout to the used bookstore in Portland that had a full shelf of leather binding rejects
I was digging through Powell's last weekend and found maybe 30 books that clearly got booted from some bindery for crooked spines or misaligned gold stamping. Half of them were perfectly fine to my eyes. Got me wondering - do we as binders toss stuff that any normal person would never notice? Or is it good to hold ourselves to a high standard? Curious where the rest of you draw that line.
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owens.cameron10d ago
Leather binding rejects" - sounds like my high school yearbook photo but with more gold stamping. Honestly, I figure if the crooked spine still holds the pages in and the gold is just slightly off center, that's a win in my book. I've got a shelf of these "flawed" books at home and they're my favorites, they got character. The bindery purists can keep their perfect copies, I'll take the misfits that read just fine.
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