The only excuse for this custom that I have ever heard urged, is that one always knows when to rebind volumes so adorned: it is when the labels begin to fall.
Usually there is no need to rebind these ancient tomes whose 'joints' are so delicately described by the bookseller as 'tender': their very infirmity will ensure that they be accorded careful handling.
The British Museum authorities, recognising this, wisely rebind in leather certain volumes published in cloth covers which are to be placed on the shelves of the Reading Room.
When it is necessary to rebind the book, the margin of the typewritten page should be left an inch wider on each side than the regular margin.
Some inexpensive editions rebind and wear as well as the first editions.
If very popular, it may be wise to rebind it, for it must be remembered that good library binders can accomplish wonders with books that are in poor condition.
In sorting the books the question of whether to rebind or repair at the library must be decided for all books, except those in the discarded class and those which need new records (tags, pockets, book cards, etc.
Mend books which have been rebound once but which it would not pay to rebind again.
It is cheaper to rebind a book than it is to discard it and later be obliged to buy a new copy.
It may cost more to buy a new book than to rebind an old one; yet this is exactly what should be done in every such case if the funds of the library permit.
If the books were bound before purchase the library may have lost money, because one can frequently buy a publisher's book and rebind it more cheaply than he can purchase the book bound from the sheets.
Undoubtedly this is true if the labels are not properly put on; but if care be taken, there is no reason why the white gummed labels should not last until it is necessary torebind a book, when of course the call number will be gilded.
If the assistant decides not to rebind it, the book will be issued only a few more times before it will have to be withdrawn from circulation and sent to the repair room again.
One of these comes to the hands of the person in charge of binding in such condition that at the first glance it seems desirable to rebind it.
Many of them are rarely used; why rebind them at all, no matter how broken?
When it was down, would they rebind him and leave him for Wessner to wreak his insane vengeance on, or would they take him along to the next tree and dispose of him when they had stolen all the timber they could?
In their haste to fell the tree and load it, so that the teamsters could start, and leave them free to attack another, they had forgotten to rebind him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rebind" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
