Repair My Book

Preserving knowledge, memories, and history

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Repair my book is a blog about repairing and restoring books using old world craftsmanship, one book at a time.   it tells a short story about each book, it's history if know, why it needs restoration, and what was done to preserve the book. 

Guest Speaker at Collingswood Book Festival

October 03, 2013  /  David Donahue

I was invited to be one of the speakers for the Sages of the Ages group.   I spoke for 45 minutes on book restoration techniques to a very enthustiasic group of book lovers. I had a lot of fun and I want to talk Rosemary Fearon and Margaret Smith Chairpersons for the fair for the invitation and the nice thank you that Rosemary sent.  

   "Thank you again for speaking at our Sages of Ages event.  Based on the comments on the survey sheet each attendee completed - it is unanimous - YOU were the best speaker of the day and I wholeheartedly agree.  Your presentation was wonderful - I could have listened all day to you speak about your specialty."

David Donahue speaking at one of the preliminary events of the 2013 Collingswood Book Festival. 

David Donahue speaking at one of the preliminary events of the 2013 Collingswood Book Festival. 

The Collingswood Book Festival is now in its 11th year and is the biggest book festival in South Jersey.   One of the organizers told me they expect 10,000 or more people to attend the open air fair, held in the downtown area of Collingswood, NJ on Saturday Oct. 5th, 2013.    The fair features over 242 exhibitors including many authors and book publishers. This is the first year we will be exhibiting at the fair and if you visit our booth number is #47.     The all day duty to set up and man the booth has fallen in Madeline, since I will be in Chicago at the Chicago Book Fair.    

At Collingswood we will be exhibiting for the very first time, some of our Harry Potter Clam Shell Boxes and one lucky person will actually win one of the boxes just by signing up for this blog email notifications.   That's a $750.00 value, by we are really hoping a young wizard to be wins the clams shell box.  

We will also have a sign up sheet for two classes we will be offering in early 2014.   One class, a single day event will be for booksellers or book collectors who want to learn how to do basic book repairs.  In this class we will be teaching japanese tissue repairs to damaged leather and cloth, hollow tube replacements, and how to reattach cover boards with Japanese tissues. 

The other class will be Restore Your Family Bible.  In this class, the participant will bring thier own family bible to the class and we will guide them step by step through the repair process and when they are done they will have a fully restored family bible.  

So Madeline is looking foward to meeting people at the fair and next week we'll post some pictures of the fair.  

 

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