You said your eyes stopped feeling tired. I read an article that said it takes about two weeks for your eyes to fully adjust to a new screen setup. They called it the "visual adaptation period." Makes sense why moving things helped you so much.

Look at the top selling books right now, @shane_reed. A lot of them are written with help from these tools. The test isn't if a machine can write a whole chapter alone, it's if a writer can use it to make their own work better and faster. Plenty of readers are already enjoying books that used AI in the process without even knowing it.

Right? I totally overthink stuff like that too. Last week I spent an hour stressing over a text I sent, just to realize the person probably didn't even notice. Made myself feel weird for no reason.

My go-to has been a basic wheat paste for repairing paperback spines, mixed about one part flour to four parts water. It gets this smooth, almost rubbery feel when it dries that I prefer over the stiffness of PVA glue. I found the mix at my local art store works better than what I tried making from regular baking flour last year. Your starch paste method sounds like it hits that same sweet spot of being strong but still flexible.

Wait, you let a kid read Deadpool? That's the part that gets me. It's not exactly kids stuff, but hey, if it gets them reading, who am I to judge.