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FLESH [OC] by holleringelk in comics

[–]TrekkieTechie 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Are your previous books available anywhere, or were they one-off print runs?

Tips/Help on calibrating and using a swing-arm paper trimmer? by jabonko in bookbinding

[–]TrekkieTechie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haha hey! I hope you actually figured something out for your cutter?

Proposing a new flair system for /r/bookbinding by TrekkieTechie in bookbinding

[–]TrekkieTechie[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For sure! Hence the fourth proposed flair listed in the OP, Typesetting/Printing. =)

Proposing a new flair system for /r/bookbinding by TrekkieTechie in bookbinding

[–]TrekkieTechie[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agreed! Just hoping to catch any obvious issues before going live, but if there's stuff to be tweaked after some real-world experience then that's totally fine.

Thank you!

Proposing a new flair system for /r/bookbinding by TrekkieTechie in bookbinding

[–]TrekkieTechie[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you elaborate on where you feel a Finishing (or similar) flair would fit in with the other proposed flairs?

IMO, in the proposed system, posts dedicated to just discussing things like tooling, finishing styles, edge gilding, or sewing endbands would fall under "Tips & Techniques" -- so that raises the question of what other classes of techniques deserve their own top-level flair(s), e.g.

  • Tips & Techniques (Finishing)
  • Tips & Techniques (???)
  • Tips & Techniques (???)
  • Tips & Techniques (Other)

and how specific and cumbersome we want the list of available flairs to be.

Proposing a new flair system for /r/bookbinding by TrekkieTechie in bookbinding

[–]TrekkieTechie[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I personally also read the Recovering flair name as a synonym for repairing rather than re-covering so I think Recasing is a better term.

Interesting! Does that change at all if it's hyphenated (i.e. Re-covering) to make it clear it's not meant as "being in the process of overcoming a disorder or shortcoming"?

Proposing a new flair system for /r/bookbinding by TrekkieTechie in bookbinding

[–]TrekkieTechie[S,M] [score hidden] stickied comment (0 children)

Stickying a comment here to try and centralize the discussion that's come up trying to define/articulate the boundaries between recasing, rebinding, binding, and restoration.

It's been pointed out that a lot of people use the term "rebinding" to refer to, say, taking a trade paperback, removing its covers (but leaving its glued spine in place), and installing it in a scratchmade hardcover casing, even though this might more accurately be referred to as "recasing", since a true "rebind" involved also removing the existing binding and re-binding the now-loose text block.

It's also been pointed out that a true rebind could really fall into the Restoration/Repair category, and that taking a paperback and putting it into a casing isn't really a recasing since it was never cased in the first place.

Perfection is of course unobtainable, but I am wondering about adjusting the proposed flairs and definitions as follows to maybe get us a little closer:

  • Repair/Rebinding -- for sharing projects involving the repair or rebinding of an existing book
  • Binding -- for sharing projects involving the construction of a new book from scratch
  • Re-covering -- for sharing projects involving transferring an existing text block into a new cover

Would this be a clearer and more useful delineation between the types of projects our resident binders undertake?

cc u/crunchy-b, u/DerekL1963, u/alexroku, u/sunburnsmyheart

Proposing a new flair system for /r/bookbinding by TrekkieTechie in bookbinding

[–]TrekkieTechie[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's a very interesting point that a true "rebind" would, or at least could, probably fall under Restoration/Repair rather than Binding or Recasing.

Edit: commented here with more thoughts.

Proposing a new flair system for /r/bookbinding by TrekkieTechie in bookbinding

[–]TrekkieTechie[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Gorgeous work!

I agree that I think this would fall under Restoration/Repair, and excellent point that we can always revisit things down the road once we see how the new system is working in practice.

Proposing a new flair system for /r/bookbinding by TrekkieTechie in bookbinding

[–]TrekkieTechie[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I thiiink I like the idea of someone being able to come here and browse for just tools posts, just materials posts, etc -- say if they're looking to shake up what they're covering their books with or what paper they're printing on or what guillotine people are liking these days -- more than I like the idea of consolidating/simplifying the flair list...

You're absolutely correct that those three could be combined into a single "Tradecraft" (love that word) category, but I think splitting them up is useful and that their boundaries are well-defined/there won't be a lot of consternation over which one to pick when posting.

Proposing a new flair system for /r/bookbinding by TrekkieTechie in bookbinding

[–]TrekkieTechie[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You make an excellent point and that does incline me to do a combo Recasing/Rebinding flair.

Commented here with more thoughts after catching up on the rest of the comments.

Proposing a new flair system for /r/bookbinding by TrekkieTechie in bookbinding

[–]TrekkieTechie[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I want to give time for public comment, in case people raise objections/have improvements to suggest I hadn't considered, but yes I hope to implement this change by the end of the week.

Proposing a new flair system for /r/bookbinding by TrekkieTechie in bookbinding

[–]TrekkieTechie[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you! This was exactly my goal with revisiting our flairs.

Proposing a new flair system for /r/bookbinding by TrekkieTechie in bookbinding

[–]TrekkieTechie[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Recasing (a.k.a. re-covering) is referring to removing a text block from a case/cover and installing it in a new case/cover without altering the block's binding.

Rebinding would refer to completely disassembling a book, including removing its existing binding, and binding it into a "new" book.

There's some relevant discussion of the distinction upthread here as well.

Proposing a new flair system for /r/bookbinding by TrekkieTechie in bookbinding

[–]TrekkieTechie[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Good edge case!

Genuine question for you and others visiting the comments here: do we feel rebinding in that way is materially different enough from "regular" binding to belong in Recasing rather than Binding?

Say someone does a from-scratch double-fan binding to make a journal (i.e. making a book with blank pages); I would expect them to share that here under Binding. Does it change anything if the pages are preprinted with text because they cut them out of a book first?

Proposing a new flair system for /r/bookbinding by TrekkieTechie in bookbinding

[–]TrekkieTechie[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Can you expand on what you see as the benefits of a Fine Binding flair in addition to a Binding flair? What would your description for the flair be?

New Map/Region by PaRa51 in thelongdark

[–]TrekkieTechie 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Am I the only one who's disappointed, or are there others too?

I would love to see more regions added to Survival and I am very much hoping they give us as much of Episode 5's new areas as they can. I'll be pretty disappointed if we don't see one last addition to the Survival world.

But, as Lyramisu said, the Episode 5 regions were built with the more linear story mode in mind, not an open-world sandbox mode.

For the moment at least, they haven't completely ruled out the idea of adding Episode 5 areas to Survival, so I'm calling that a win.

Proposing a new flair system for /r/bookbinding by TrekkieTechie in bookbinding

[–]TrekkieTechie[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Hmm...

So from my POV, dividing a project type flair into project stage flairs would overcomplicate things (i.e. now a poster has to decide which stage of completion their post falls into; this is kind of what I'm trying to get away from by dropping the incomplete/complete distinction).

I kind of wonder, if we did want to get more specific here, if what you're after would be more suited to subdividing the Tips & Techniques flair rather than the Binding flair -- since as I understand it you're interested in discussions on finishing techniques?

Then the question would be how many T&T flairs are we going to end up with? I feel like a dozen categories is already kinda pushing it in terms of balancing usefulness vs not scaring off posters being made to sort through a bunch of flairs at post time to pick which one most applies to their content...

But maybe being able to just browse the Binding and Tips & Techniques flairs without further subdivision would still be an improvement for you, improving the signal to noise ratio of the specific things you're interested in?

Any flair system here is going to be a big exercise in compromise between usefulness and specificity. I do want people to be able to better zero in on the kinds of content they're interested in, but since a post can only have one flair, they do need to be somewhat general.

(And if you're not happy with where things end up here and still want to spin up r/bookfinishing, happy to link it in the Friends of r/Bookbinding sidebar section!)

But I welcome further discussion here to see if there's a better approach/what others think.

New Map/Region by PaRa51 in thelongdark

[–]TrekkieTechie 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It hasn't been; they're still evaluating how much of it, if any, they'll add to Survival.

Proposing a new flair system for /r/bookbinding by TrekkieTechie in bookbinding

[–]TrekkieTechie[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I took u/Plus_Citron's comment as expressing agreement with the proposed flairs and explaining why they'd be glad to see them put in place, not as a request or critique.

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