Spent 4 hours rebinding a water damaged 1890s family bible in my garage in Boise and the owner cried when she picked it up

Matthew Garcia · 2026-09-22T14:30:03.742783+00:00

I thought she was gonna be mad about the new spine color, but she said her grandma used to read it to her on that exact same cracked cover, and that's when it hit me that we're not fixing paper, we're keeping people's hands on the same book their people held, so what's the oldest thing you've ever put back together?

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