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Because leather is an organic material meant to deteriorate over time, its important to take preventative measures to help leather bindings last a long long time. Bookbinding is the process of physically assembling a book of codex format from an ordered stack of paper sheets that are folded together into sections or sometimes left as a stack of individual sheets. Jan 30, 2018 theres the smell of the pages, the feel of the cover, the literal weight of the bound pages, which brings a tangible heft to the knowledge they contain. Classics leather bounds books for sale in stock ebay. Leather journals, sketchbooks, wedding and memory books bound.

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