That feedback about my spine rounding was brutal but necessary

Someone on the forum told me I was over-rounding my spines to the point the pages would never open flat, and after 3 ruined books I finally switched to a sharper crease method that actually works-has anyone else had to completely re-learn a basic step after bad habits?

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drew8055d ago

Ha, yeah that hit a little too close to home. I spent months wrestling with my textbook spines before I finally accepted I was the problem, not the paper.

joseph_martinez355d ago

See, I actually go the other way on this one. Maybe it's just because I've been collecting used textbooks for years, but I think the spine issue is more about the binding quality than the reader. Some of those cheap paperbacks from the 80s literally fall apart no matter how careful you are, while the hardcovers from the 60s still look brand new after decades of abuse. But I get what you're saying about accepting blame though. There's definitely a point where you gotta look at how you're holding the book open and realize you're bending it wrong.