Does anyone still read books?

[MT Gianni]

Alex, in the US most libraries have access to rebinding materials and there are companies that do it at a reasonable cost. For me, buying items require a large quantity of materials for just a few books.

[.429&H110]

You can Bubba a book like you can Bubba a firearm.
A valuable book should be repaired by a booksmith.

An old paperback can be repaired with flexible librarian tape that wears much longer than scotch tape.
I have some repairs at 30 years old that still stick.

Number 2 son was in the Army, and my local library was throwing out books. I mailed a few and got the library to mail "book rate" boxes of books to places I had never heard of. Library made some phone calls, and yah, people at Army bases want old books, for free.

There was a program to send "Bible sticks" to Afghanistan, since Bibles were forbidden. Apparently a couple million New Testament sticks were made, amazing thing was they also had Farsi and Arabic New Testaments on them.
"The Word of God will never return void"

[375supermag]

Hi...
Add me to the list of people who still read books.
I study military history, mostly WWII and paleontology.
I have an extensive library in my den and am constantly adding to it.
Many of the boks on paleontology concern hominid evolution, but I also study canine, feline and bear evolution as well as a fascination with dinosaurs and the megafauna that went extinct at the end of the last ice age.
My studies of WWII follows the battles and campaigns obviously but also weapons development including the intricacies of the manufacture and composition of armor plate.
I also read a fair amount of science fiction and have quite a few shooting relat
ed books.