Buy Some Old Trashed Books at a Thrift Shop

What do you call the little bunches of pages, little
booklets, that are combined for a hardback? I'm sure there's some
printer's term I might've even known once decades ago. Anyway, looks
like there's a paper that wraps around them, to which they're all bound
or glued, and that's what's become torn, or rotted away, between two
booklets. Only one thread still links the two sections. (I'm describing
this poorly, I think - a pic would be worth 100 words.)

I have no idea if or how I could do a decent repair myself. Probably
won't try getting a pro book re-binder to work on it. Hate this nice
old book falling apart, though.

Now to peruse the bookthread comments. But first, a refill of the ol' coffee mug.
Posted by: mindful webworker - slowly he turned, inch by inch, page by page at April 10, 2016 11:06 AM (macz7)

One of my hobbies is (badly) binding sketchbooks.

But Sabrina has all the information

I have replaced the end papers at that hinge with gauze and paper glued in with either elmers paper glue or boiled wheat paste, you may want to buy some old trashed books at a thrift shop and practice on them first, since it can be tricky.

If you love the book and don't have the tools, I would take to a book binders' and tell them why you love it and ask for a quote.

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