Book reparation kit

In college, I had a class of book repair.  We were taking it at the beginning of our three years studies.  To do this class, we had to buy a book repair kit.  As it was a practical class, we needed that kit.  It contain all we needed to do book repair.  It had glue,  tape, scissors, a brush, a flat stick, etc.  It was what was mostly needed to do the work.

I remember that I liked the class.  I wasn't the only one, I think.  In addition, nobody never resell the kit.  It is a no brainer why we did so.  It was too useful in everyday use.  There are always books that needed to be repaired.  We had the knowledge and the tools, so nothing could stop us from doing the work ourselves.

I miss that class.  We could bring our own books for reparation, in the class.  We learned a lot.  I wish there was another class for more advanced technique offered.  It wasn't the case.  Would be fun to have that kind of class.  Or something on book binding, the old methods.  We learned how it was done, the teacher had it explained quickly how it was done.  We just didn't do it fully, up to the leather cover.  It may have been too expansive to do.  We were a small class, in a small department.   The department only have  three day classes in total.  One for each year.  So, it was really a small department.

Book repair is a kind of art.  It need creativity to do some repair.  Even if there are repair that are evident to do.  I a job, later on, I learned how to repair big dictionaries.  It was fun.  It had brought back some pleasant memories.  It is just a sad thing I could not stay at that job.  I learned that at the end of my stay there.  It took time between each step.  It was something useful.  It was manual.  It was something I enjoyed doing.  Since then,  I didn't had the opportunity to repeat that experience again.  At least, I have everything needed to do books repair at home.