So, when I have nervous breakdowns, I stay indoors for days and do projects. This is my most recent thing. I borrowed a copy of Folland’s Real Analysis from my guy. It’s over 100 bucks to purchase from Wiley & Sons, and the binding is SO BAD that all the pages start falling out immediately. Also, it’s free as a PDF. But, anyway, this one was already purchased, and my guy gave me permission to do this to it:
And this:
And a little bit of this and this:
So that it would be like this now:
I’m waiting for the corner protectors to come in to cover up some not-quite-excellent corner work, but all in all I’m very happy about this new hobby. Rebinding books is a seriously valuable skill for a person in academia. I’m about to make some printed, older-edition-of-textbooks-that-are-out-of-copyright PDFs look SO GOOD, heck yes.
Oops I did the thing again to My New Favorite Book
Reblogging with the latest addition to my ‘math books as ancient grimoires’ collection, because bookbinding is my official 2020 coping hobby.