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Poll. How do you feel about different types of restoration?

Started by MCMiles,

Minor pro color touch  

267 members have voted

  1. 1. Minor pro color touch

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MCMiles

MCMiles

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Below are several polls. Each one pertains to a specific type of work/restoration. Obviously some of the polls had to be generalized to keep the quantity down to a minimum.

Also, assume that all work is done to high standards.

 

On a scale of 0 to 10 choose how you feel about each type of procedure.

 

0 (zero) = "I don't care at all"

 

10 = "the book is destroyed and I would never consider buying it"

 

 

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buttock

buttock

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Interesting. I found that I care more about things added to the book (ct, pieces) than things removed (cleaned, trimmed).

 

Obviously various degrees of trimming - microtrim doesn't seem to be much of a problem. The big 1mm plus trim is bad news.

 

But CT really bothers me.

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arexcrooke

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I dont really mind any of them. But, looking at it from a book I would want to buy (and yes, i would love to have a restored GA GL #1) i looked at it through those glasses.

So, trimming is still a :sick: for me.

Cover cleaned is eh, so-so

Pressing, well, no issue there

Minor/moderate pro color touch is fine.

Pieces added im not really gung ho on

amateur color touch is :flamed:

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rjpb

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pressing bothers me not at all

 

small tear seals and spine split repair not much if reflected in price

 

minor ct only a little more than tear seals

 

dry cleaning okay - chemnical seems to change the paper composition - so not so much

 

trimming and pieces added I don't like - but never say never.

 

In general I don't mind minor rest as long as i know what I'm getting and the price is fair - bothers me less than non-archival tape - which may not be resto - but looks like - thoughif it's not on the outside FC, I can live with it.

 

I buy mostly low-mid grade - obviously in higher grade books, minor resto would be more of an issue (mostly due to limited resale potential) and the discount would have to be steeper

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skypinkblu

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I don't like trimming, but rate pressing, and color touch about the same, extensive not so much. I actually don't mind minor amateur color touch much at all, especially if it was in the context of a kid who owned the book playing with it.

Tear seals...well, some of my books would fall apart without tear seals, so they are on my least bad list, and I like those better than tape:)

 

Nice list:) it helped me focus:).

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spoonerism

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The most interesting result to me is re: pressing. It shows why there's so many harsh debates on here about it.

 

I rate it a zero, as do more than half of us so far, but there are some (presuming they're not joking) that consider a book ruined? WTF?

 

 

 

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