My sister asked me why I bother hand-sewing endbands on a $5 thrift store book.

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Remember my friend who restored a beat-up old cookbook she found in a free bin. She spent hours fixing the spine and sewing new endbands. Her brother said she was nuts, that it was just trash. But she gave it to her grandma for her birthday, and her grandma cried. It had her own mother's handwritten notes in the margins. The work wasn't about the book's price. It was about making something whole again for someone she loved.

terry_lewis2115d ago

Brother clearly missed the point.

gibson.elizabeth13d ago

Wait, her own grandma's mom wrote in that book? That's wild.