Rant: the archivist in Des Moines told me my spine lining was too thin, and she was right

Riley Burns · 2026-09-23T14:00:03.252889+00:00

I was complaining about my third repair coming apart at the hinge when she pulled a 1890s ledger off her cart and pointed at the mull, said "you're gluing paper to paper and calling it structure." Went home, doubled up my lining with a strip of linen, and that same book has held shut clean for 5 months now. Any of you use linen instead of straight paper for hinge linings, or do you go a different route?

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