So tired of seeing joints that aren't even glued properly

I was looking through a stack of rebinds at a shop in Portland last month and like half of them had the signatures just barely tacked on. You can literally pull the text block apart with your fingers if you try. How hard is it to spread the PVA evenly across the spine?

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thompson.brian1mo ago

Honestly it's the same thing everywhere now, people rushing through stuff that used to take pride and patience. Seems like half the things people buy these days are just held together by hope and a prayer.

stone.simon1mo ago

My grandfather's 1970s fridge still runs perfectly and that thing was built like a tank.

theathomas25d ago

Oh wow, I gotta push back a little on that fridge thing. Your grandfather's 1970s fridge is a tank because it's basically a big metal box with a simple compressor - no circuit boards, no ice makers, no water dispensers, no fancy displays. Those things were built to last because they didn't have much to break. But the trade off was they used like 3 times the electricity and some of them had freon that's terrible for the ozone. I'm not saying modern stuff isn't flimsy sometimes, but people forget how many old appliances were death traps or energy hogs. My mom had an old freezer in her garage from the 80s and her electric bill dropped $40 a month when she finally replaced it. So yeah, craftsmanship matters, but it's not like everything old was better - we just remember the survivors.