Removing book inserts
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@strangeattractor said in Removing book inserts:
I ripped a colour insert out of the first volume of Bookworm because
I'm allergic to colour ink and glossy paper of that type. It didn't rip cleanly. There were jagged edges of maybe half a centimetre amplitude. A knife or scissors or doing something with the binding probably would have worked better.That's a thing?
I wish I could say that was the strangest allergy I've heard of, but unfortunately, it isn't.
Green's Theorem
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@jpwong said in Removing book inserts:
@qeeh Hair dryer, or if you have access to one of those heat guns that places use to do shrink wrapping on products probably works the best.
It's possible to pick up heat guns at places like Harbor Freight or Grizzly at a decent price which have a fair degree of temperature control. For home shop use they work just fine.
You can also get nozzle attachments which allow you to more precisely control the area being heated by narrowing or otherwise delimiting the flow of the air upon exiting the heat gun.The substance used to bind paperbacks these days is basically a version of hot glue, and can be softened by the application of heat, either by heating the surrounding environment (hot air) or using something like a clothes iron held against the spine; the clothes iron approach requires a layer of waste paper in between, as it will scorch the surface it is held against.
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@piisfun said in Removing book inserts:
That's a thing?
I wish I could say that was the strangest allergy I've heard of, but unfortunately, it isn't.
I have Multiple Chemical Sensitivities, so I react to a lot of different things. Unfortunately manufacturers and retailers usually do not disclose the name of the specific inks and papers used, or their ingredients, so I couldn't tell you what specifically I react to. Some are ok for me and others aren't. The ones J-Novel Club used on their physical releases are not ok for me, so I stick to the ebook releases.
