The Special Design That Makes Library Books Indestructible
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Don’t underestimate people’s ability to destroy books. Even the ones that are supposed to be indestructible. Sincerely, a librarian.
I can only imagine what hell would be your job if they weren't that kinda standard.
Some more popular titles or some specific seasons likely replacing weekly.
I wonder how many of us are going to be lured to the comments to seek out our fellow librarians. 😂
When I worked at a Library, I changed from "don't break the spine or dog ear!" to "thank God they are reading, let's tape it up."
Nothing is indestructible, is trust hard to destroy. Example: tanks, buildings, books, ... .But usually things get destroy by brute force.
Most of them are actually not bound to that standard, and so they do fall apart quickly. For popular fiction bestseller types, we actually *lease* multiple copies for a couple years at a time, then send all but one or two copies back.
Amy is quickly becoming my favorite person in the Half-as-roster
nah ben doyle and adam chase are also amazing
She was brutal to Ben and Adam in Alaska 😅
Amy the newly minted expert on binders. Can't find a more perfect person than that (in the library)
I can't believe he has a payroll
Always has been
Don't feel pressured Amy! We are supporting you!!! I like scented candles
We should appreciate Amy 🙂
I _really_ want to know whose cat she was writing to.
I always find them a bit too much, but definitely enjoyed pages 12 and 13 :D
Half As Book looks fantastic! Great work, Amy!
@@midnatts-kornajoel2224 Bricks as Half
I loved seeing Half As Book! We'll have to wait to see the chapter about bricks. :-)
no, it looks half as fantastic
Can't wait to read Half As Book!
Shout-out to Mr.Bookbinder for providing the most amazing email roast I've ever seen in my life
Thanks for showing that 😂
Bro was unnecessarily cold and hilarious
It reads as if this wasn't the first time that he was asked this question.
I'd like it if he secretly _is_ a bookbinder by trade, but simply resents the assumption.
@@ElectroNeutrinoexactly, I feel like he just copy pastes this every time he gets a book binding question
This a partially comedic video. I hate to burst your bubble, but this sounds an awful lot like it is a bit the writers put in as a joke, and not something that actually happened.
I had no clue of the intricacies in the making of a library-bound book. A totally new perspective.
The area labelled with question marks in your standard's number is the catalogue number for the Standard, it's what you would search for if the standard was referred to by a work instruction or other document.
Ie the book is to be bound to standard ANSI Z39.78 - 2000
The binders quality system is to be ISO9000 certified.
Etc etc
Four Keys Books Arts is a good book binding channel if you wanna watch the whole process. It's not library binding, but it's entertaining
The library is the only place I have ever seen hard-bound manga and comics that weren't special editions, precisely because they were library bound and popular with the preteen through college crowd.
Would like to say as a long time watcher of this channel, this episode is easily a top one. Just good, clean, interesting AND super mundane but particular. It's perfect.
As an aspiring librarian with a history of accidentally leaving books in my backpack to get bent out of shape and destroyed (I barely ever borrow or carry physical books anymore because of this), this is really fascinating to me.
Only channel where it could make book binding interesting to learn about.
I knew nothing about this being a standard, but I have for a long time had an unreasonable obsession with these sorts of books. Or really any hardcover with a matte finish. I don't know why, they just make me happy
When I was in high school (Madras, India), we would have a local book binder bind our books (after market) so that we don't ruin them during the school year. Everything is use and throw now. 😢
Ok but what about a book about bricks?
1:50 I would imagine that Z39.78 is the standard number, like "3103" is for ISO 3103. As the annotation explains, -2000 is the year the standard was adopted, so this is the year 2000 version of ANSI/NISO/LBC Z39.78.
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Tomorrow’s history for today’s fact guy
Todays fact : the fact guy is actually a bot
@@akshatrai9007please explain how making non-sequitur comments on popular videos to essentially self promote makes one a hero?
Half as Book turned out GREAT Amy 🤗
very well made video, big props to Amy's research!
I really hope Amy enjoyed making that book! It looks like a fun yet challenging learning project! Well done!
5:58 wait... mr sam... from wendover... doesnt know how planes work???
its always so funny to me that the longest lasting information storage forms are treated, well stored, goat parchment and specially made paper books, while digital formats last a few decades, max, before the storage format or device is incompatible with computers and the data is lost.
edit: forgot about stone and clay tablets but i dont think anyone is storing information on those
So my mom got me a Scientific American subscription for Christmas and I haven't read it but my girlfriend found a quote in an article about how we (Americans) hate naps even though they're great that made her say "this would be a good Half as Interesting video." Page 77 of the December '23 issue says "In 2019 a U.S. federal agency even announced a ban on sleeping in government buildings". The atricle does not elaborate and I also think this would make a great HAI video (and also who has time to googling every anti-napping regulatory body in the country?) Anyway you should totally make a video about that!
The bookbinder featured in the video has been binding our 2880-page Limited Edition Book since 2015. He is a true original and an incredible artist (and he claims, "My face is for the Radio, not the TV), which is most likely why there's no footage of his face. If you're curious about his work, here's an example:
th-cam.com/video/keaKzyexVRQ/w-d-xo.html
I like mr/mrs bookbinders Reply. Had me in tears
This is why I always former library books from Better World Books!
I think you're a word.
That Half As Book would probably make a killing in a charity auction
This is a masterpiece of a video haha
If you didn't, go through and pause it to read the text they only briefly show, like in Amy's little book. So funny
One letter and a hyphen short of Half-Ass Book😂 still love it
I'm good Amy! It's rainy today where I am. I do like your handwriting!
we LOVE Amy and her hand writing!
amy
the whole reason we check out HAI
Bet shes stoked to have that on her bookshelf
Having worked a solid portion of my life at a printing and binding factory, having worked on library-bound projects, I have opinions on how long they'll 'actually' last.
Mr. Bookbinder has absolutely HAD it with peoples assumptions of him.
2:26 censor the name at the top but not bottom?
There is nothing more beautiful than living as your real, true, authentic self and living that, she is who she wants to be and thats lovely ❤
Amy making her own book to the Standard is perfection
I love library binding, I wish my hardcover books came in it.
You can have your copies re-bound, but it's not cheap.
Ok, but that tiny book is adorable
Mr. Bookbinder is a legend.
1:28 - there is no way that stock footage was already available. HaI must have commissioned it.
Imagine a book binder named Bookbinder. That's as silly as a librarian named Bookman! (Shameless Seinfeld reference.)
That opening statement turned me to dust
Bookbinder guy is great
Both of them, even!
I love getting old indestructible library books on ebay.
Hundreds and hundreds of video clip art
Scented candles are alright I guess, and nice handwriting!
okay, let's ask the most important question here, what is going on in the clip at 1:25 ?
I actually wouldn't be surprised in the least if Alice Cooper knew anything about making barrels. He's actually kinda well known for being well versed in trivia and intellectual studies.
I want that tiny book way too much lol
I’ve enjoyed these videos, I love learning random shit. You got my sub! Achievement Unlocked!
4:49
“Half an inch”
You missed an opportunity to write half an Inchresting
So when is Amy going to hand make each of us a book?
I remember at some point people could suggest video ideas. Can I still do that?
If I'm not mistaken, there was a Google form somewhere. I just don't know how to find it.
Edit: 11 seconds later, I found it. It was in the description. I'm stupid.
I wonder if the national standard for library binding is published in a library bound book somewhere out there (ps, I would definitely read half as book)
Amy needs a pay rise to recognise her new skills!
She's already got catastrophic health insurance, that's generous.
She really showed she can stitch together a story, do a good job covering the topic, and has a rigid spine!
Nice try, Amy
no no, keep her down, then she's going to put in the effort to stay employed and give us many more half-assed books.
So Amy is getting Half As Paid eh?
-yes, I had to-
4:17 as a millennial who became a professional bookbinder apprentice last year after a career-pivot: almost all the equipment that we use in binding hasn’t been manufactured in the last 40 years. Oversewers, wire stitchers, board shears, turning-in machines, lead-type makers, and foil hot-presses (with their various attachments) are becoming ever more rarer to find and more difficult to maintain. Some things still exist in a modern form (like ream cutters) but the manufacturing industry that supported bookbinding has basically all but collapsed.
Well, if one of your machines breaks down, the channel Vintage Machinery would be a great place to get (non-forged) replacement parts made.
You aren’t a professional anything after a year….
You don’t know their life, maybe they’re very good at what they do. No need to be a snob
@@nickmcintyre2060 binding is my profession, it is my means of employment in my professional working life.
Thus, I am a professional binder.
@@nickmcintyre2060 Buy a lawn mover and start charging money for moving lawns and you're a professional lawn mover when you do your fist job. A professional $(profession) apprentice is someone who's doing a paid apprenticeship, as opposed to paying for education, or being a hobby apprentice at the local historical trade museum.
So the TL;DR is that "professional" does not mean "good at" but rather "makes money off". If it was the former, rather than the latter, you'd be a professional idiot. But since it's not, you're just a regular idiot until someone pays you for your idiotic remarks.
I love that Amy writes the scripts that make fun of herself and make Sam sound like a semi-abusive boss. Top marks all around!
It's a cry for help, we need to alert the authorities about Half As Sweatshop.
Of maybe Sam adds those parts himself.
At least (as far as we know) Sam doesn't keep his staff locked up in the basement, unlike Simon. Amy, if Sam is holding you captive in the basement, work the key phrase "the rooster crowed at midnight" into the next script and we will send a rescue party. @@johnladuke6475
That's what Sam wants us to think.
Amy, I know you felt pressured to nail this page of the book because it's visible in the video, but be assured, you did an amazing job!!!!! Anyway, thanks for asking, my day was good but it was hot and cloudy, I do indeed prefer staying indoors, and I do like your handwriting! I would 10/10 read a hand-written book made by you.
Hot and cloudy? In January? Where do you live, Australia? It's extraordinarily cold here in most parts of the US right now, so I WISH it was hot and cloudy!
I'm also here to express my support to Amy and her handwriting.
Yay handwriting. Amy did nail that page of the book.
@@MatthewTheWanderer yeah, currently in Australia with inhumane temperatures
Getting my graduate degree in library science - i think people forget that lots of librarians have graduate degrees and skills from computer science and programming, social science qualitative studies, and archiving stuff!
Also copyright law. Talk to a librarian if you wanna hear a rant about how much it costs to license ebooks
Also why most people working at a library arent librarians.
Such a useless degree!
If you don't already have a job in the field... I have bad news for you.
Man, I feel bad for librarians. I read a while ago how much libraries spend on licensing ebooks, and it's genuinely ridiculous. The Internet Archive appealed their case - I hope to god it's resolved in their favor, because that'd set a great precedent for libraries.
I've started just "legally" finding ebooks online (LibGen) and/or buying used copies. I'm not going to support the companies strong-arming my library. My money's put to better use donating to the Internet Archive or to LibGen.
@@bane2201
yeh, it's ridiculous!
good!
Remember to tell Amy her book binding skills are above average! When do we get a second edition?
Do two Half as Books make one As Book?
I'd like to see more coverage of Amy making the book...
@@timduncan6750 Is this an intentional pun?
@@Chubby_Bub No, it wasn't but I see it now...
Amy actually making the book is one of the most unexpectedly beautiful moments in a 6 minute semi-educational video I could imagine. Give her a show!
I can’t help but admire Mr Bookbinder’s response to Amy’s email.
I have the feeling he has used that response before.
@@seanj3667Dare I say-he probably has a program for it
Tom Jones.
"Harumph." as a sign off is pretty glorious
at the library i used to work at, we usually just had our classics library bound. everything else was mostly consumer print, because shelf space is limited, and weeding out worn books helps free up space for new books! once the books are no longer relevant or of interest to the public, they get donated or sold. no one wants a hundred copies of each new james patterson to last a couple hundred years. he'd take over the entire library if he could. (i hate james patterson. i hate james patterson with a hundred burning fires. and a hundred burning wrists)
Tell us how you really feel about James Patterson. I feel like you're holding back.
Please tell us more about James Patterson.
How do you _really_ feel about James Patterson?
Please point at this doll where James Patterson hurt you.
Library worker here, I do the preparing of new books, some in-housing mending and binding, and I recycle the discards. 99.9% of books in a public library are NOT library bound, they're just regular commercial copies. The ones that are, though, are TOUGH. I struggled to cut a 1950s library bound children's book apart with an x-acto knife, while much newer books were falling apart on their own after a few circulations.
Library bindings might not be pretty, but they are AWESOME.
As someone who tortures technical reference manuals for a living I ALWAYS pay the premium for the hard cover with hollow spine option, if available. It saddens me that the only local bookbinder died about a decade ago. At 87 years. In his workshop. Having lunch. I still have a 1st edition Advanced Programming in The UNIX Environment bound by him in the rack reserved for "historical artefacts".
@@andersjjensenIf I can't get a sturdy hardcover edition, I often wrap the book in plastic film (there's a variety sold specifically for books), then make an easy-to-replace protective jacket out of old drawings. It's not as good as a better book, but it doubles the lifespan of a paperback or a cheap hardcover. I haven't found any good way to protect anything spiral-bound.
@@jirivorobel942 It's always the back of the book I end up breaking. When you're working off technical manuals you tend to need both hands on the keyboard while the book needs to stay on the specific page you're staring angrily at.
Wrapping is good for when you throw them in bags and/or need to read them free-hand in public transportation. But my tech books never leave my home office.
Mr. Bookbinder was so real
Harumph!
Quality of materials is important. For my internship, I weeded a lot of 90's kid's paperbacks from the library. Not because they were being read, but because the glue in the spine had dried out, and the whole thing cracked when you tried to open it. We had books from the 40's or older I left because they were holding up better. So yea, quality matters.
I've got a couple books from the Dune series (there are a lot of those books) which came from a Denver library. They are in rough shape.
Its also nice, as library books are sometimes sold at auction and then resold for a few dollars. And therefore you can buy an indestructible, if lightly used, book, for very cheap
I got some 1930s math books from a thrift store once for i think about $0.25 a piece. Still in pretty good shape for their age, and they smell fantastic. (Yes, I do buy old books for a sole purpose of smelling them)
"Barnes & Normals" was one of the best jokes I've come across recently, as was "Half as Book." I also deeply appreciate Amy's note to us and her ability to confront vulnerability. I'm gaining an increasing appreciation for her, and I hope she's appreciated at HaI. To answer your questions, Amy:
- My day has been pretty crazy when somebody flipped a breaker my experiment at work, costing me over 5 hours of work that had to be repeated for a project that MUST be finished or die this week.
- The weather is warmer than it has been lately.
- Your handwriting is lovely, and significantly more legible than my own.
- Scented candles generally, unless they are actively on fire, are usually too strong for me, but when burning, they are quite nice.
Only Sam could make _library binding_ interesting
Meh I think it was only 50% interesting
Bricks are still more interesting
I don’t know, it was 50% not interesting
I would argue that Amy made it interesting, Sam just read it
*Only Sam's employees
Loved this episode, I took up book binding 15 years ago as a hobby. Very satisfying to hold a book you rescued from the trash with 21st century materials, elbow greese and 14th century "book knowledge".
Now lets make an episode on how too bind a few bricks together.😅
how about binding a book in bricks?
@@ETXAlienRobot201also known as a Wax Tablet
I feel like we need to see Amy in the next Jet Lag season. Also, please tell me that she left "Half as Book" on a random shelf in her local library.
Ok what the fuck is with all these bot accounts saying Amazon AWT77K?
Cryptocurrency, I think
I was really surprised to learn that properly made and stored paper books is one of the most durable ways to store information for looong periods of time.
Acid free archival paper, high-quality polyester film using silver halide emulsion*, and engraved stone/clay/metal are the only proven archival media. Everything else is just guesswork if it will last any amount of time, or be readable/legible at the other end of the journey. *Note: Technicolor is archival. Process color is not. Kodachrome is close - as long as it's properly stored.
It lasts so long that a regular person cannot understand the language or the letters anymore lol. I for one cannot understand 100+ years old handwriting
@@srpenguinbr that's one of the big benefits of printing.
@@milkdrinker7 yeah and there will always be a historian somewhere who is able to read that ancient text. It just requires some effort and study, but the information is still there
@@fredinit If you're trying to store terabytes of data you'll find that a book isn't information dense enough.
"Amy did her best and ... It looks like she did her best." 😅
One of the best parts of this and other very high quality binding is that they will lay open and flat at the page that it is opened to (so it can be read while being on a table or lectern (or... lap?) Without being held. I collect books, and absolutely love, and will pay more for, books with this quality (and of this ...quality).
Cheers.
I don't know what you pay Amy, but it's not enough. She's so dedicated, and I love seeing her footage
2:24 this f*cking hilarious 🤣
He must've had trouble with that surname, yet I'm confused as to why Amy didn't guess this
Great video! Too many crypto bots in the comments :(
The guy kept handing her scraps cause he was probably excited to be asked about his trade.
“Half as Book”?? More like “One Sixteenth as Book”!
Sounds to me like Amy needs to unionize.
Yo, you should sell mini bind-your-own-book kits, I'd buy one
_Bursting Strength_
*Hydraulic Press Channel* has entered the chat.
Came here to say this! 😂
Why does Amy get to have fun? I thought her purpose was to suffer hours of walking through lost-and.found storages in the subway.
Half As Book looks right at home in that bookshelf!!! Amy is absolutely KILLING IT!!!
also: my days have been awful lately. the weather is fine, but I am definitely an indoor person. your handwriting is way better than mine, and I do like scented candles. ❤
Hi Amy. You were right, page 13 was visible in the video. I personally like candles, but not the scented kind. You did great and, if I may speak for everyone who watched this video, we like you very much.
Amy, I am doing well and the weather here is freezing. I am not entirely an indoor cat, as sometimes my guinea pig friends and I like to walk around our neighborhood. Im ok with scented candles except for the ones that smell like cookies. Those are candles of lies.
Missed your chance to say Half as Folded instead of the boring « folded in half »
Hey the new Half As Amy episode just dropped!
So obviously these standards are based on some mix of usability, practicality, and durability. I wonder if you threw out the practicality part how durable they could be made. Like presumably pages made of some non-reactive metal alloy with letters etched in could last millennia. Would be a pain to actually use as a reference, though.
That rant about how long the name was took about as much time as simply reading off the name, no where close to 45 minutes. Actually as far as titles go in technical writing is not even that long.
I have 1 book I have read double digits number of times. 1984. That's the title, not the number of times, btw.
"Here's what it means." immediately swooped off the page before the sentence even fades out of your ear. Not even pretending to actually be teaching or informing people in any capacity any more, huh? Text not even left on the screen for a single frame before the wipe transition. I'm not watching these just because I like your surgically precise TH-camr voice. Unsubscribed.
Best HAI video in a while, loving the interactive segments. Hopefully that book at the end will survive if you accidentally leave it in an oven for 10 days.
I can't recall pausing a video from HAI so much in a long time.
Considering I have put books in the oven at the lowest setting for at least an hour (depending on thickness) because of bedbugs, I see the utility in testing for heat resistance.
This is actually interesting. I have a few books myself that I read obsessively and they look like they took a huge beating. Nice presentation!
4:54 My day was alright. The weather is not so good where I am, it snowed a lot today. I am more of an indoor cat, but it would've been hard not to notice the snow pelting my face as I waited for the bus to go to work today. And most importantly, I do like your handwriting. I also like scented candles.
If I put half the effort into achieving my goals as Amy did with that book, I'd be a success!
Well yes, I would actually ask James Bond about financial securities. Why not?
He knows his way around physical securities, after all. What’s the difference?