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Stopped by the old library in Springfield and saw something that got me thinking
I was in Springfield last week and went to the main library, the one that's been there since the 50s. I wandered into the repair room in the back, which they still have, and saw the librarian using a hot glue gun on a kid's board book. It just hit me how much has changed. When I first learned, we were taught to never use hot glue on anything you wanted to last more than a year, it gets brittle and yellow. But she said it's all they have time and money for now, and they just re-buy the popular books when they fall apart. It made me a little sad for the old ways of doing things right, with proper thread and glue. Made me appreciate taking the time on my own projects even more. Has anyone else seen this kind of shift in how places fix books now?
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