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Book restoration is the renewal and repair of books. [1] Techniques include cleaning; mending and filling damaged pages; restitching and rebinding . The first substantial work on the subject was Alfred Bonnardot 's Essai sur l'art de Restaurer les Estampes et les Livres which was first published in Paris in 1846.
Because books are made from a variety of materials, conservators may also need to employ techniques and experience relating to the conservation of leather, parchment, papyrus, or fabric conservation. The main objective of cleaning is to achieve clarity of surface detail. [57] Books and documents may be subjected to different types of cleaning.
The Book Creator user interface, for designing the book and for selecting an electronic format to render an individual copy as an e-book. The Offline Content Generator (OCG) back-end service, which rendered the book in the chosen format and made it available for download. But Wikipedia does not print books or handle ordering, as that costs money.
A Wikipedia Book created using the Book Creator tool is a collection of articles or other pages from Wikipedia. It is stored as a single page which specifies the book title, the articles to be included and some other information. It has three uses: As a saved reading list, simply by clicking through to the listed articles.
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Indestructibles books are printed on a Tyvek-like paper that makes them rip-proof, chew-proof, washable and 100% non-toxic. The multi-million copy Scanimation and Photicular brands both have pages with moving images. [7]
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