[Kleronomas]

Does anyone have any methods for repairing old paperbacks with split spines where pages are coming loose?

I was thinking it may be possible to heat the spine enough that the glue would soften (melt) and the pages could be manipulated back to normal before the glue re-sets. I can try it on a book of no value to see if it can be done, but has anyone tried something similar?

[Expendable]

I found you a web page on repairing loose pages in a paperback by using a Japanese bookbinding technique (http://www.sff.net/people/Brook.West/bind/bindit.html)

This page talks about how to rebind a paperback book (http://aic.stanford.edu/sg/bpg/annual/v17/bp17-09.html)

And this one tells you how to reproduce the book as a hardback (http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/book/prep.html).

Take a look at this forum for some hints on regluing (http://www.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu/~cswingle/archive/get.phtml?message_id=151283&submit_thread=1).