I've had an internship at a local paper museum where I learned all the analogue techniques that applied to art, under which bookbinding. In a 6 month time, I learned to strip a book, make a book myself, add pages, sew pages and that stuff. It's such a therapeutic process. I will be forever grateful that I learned this. This was also so satisfying to watch and it easily could be a 30 minute video!! Books are ancient relics from our past and they need to be saved for the future. Great job @Insider!

Can you imagine the amount of old books that will be destroyed after people trying this out without the practice she has had?

This brings me back to my childhood. My father was a bookbinder and studied book restoration and I grew up watching him restore rare books. It's an art form and it takes discipline to do this work.

I really wish I could clean up my Guilt with a cuticle stick.

When she said Japanese tissue paper I knew it was washi kozo. Baumgarter restoration taught me well.

Putting paper in water * hyperventilating *

*the amount of anxiety i had when she put the pages on the water...*

The ink is not getting washed out in the water at all?

I really enjoyed watching and listening to the whole process. At the university I attended many moons ago, it had a staff of about ten book repairers as well as several apprentices that worked to restore the many old texts that resided in the library's collections.

"Then you put in the pages- right side up" I sense a story there. Unless that's just a common mistake people make.

Idk why, but I remembered Anne Reardon's 200-year-old book just by watching this.

Did she just weigh down the wet pages to keep them from becoming rippled? I’ve tried that before, and they still come out wavy

Restoring an old book takes a lot of time and effort. I can tell she's really passionate about it.

I swear you could turn this into a Violet Evergarden type of anime where the retelling of the stories from the books are combined with the craftsmanship of repairing them, and I would watch the heck out of that show! Also, give this woman a HD camera!

There is no friend as loyal as a *book* !

when she put the paper in the water i cringed and had to remind myself she's the pro here 😂 goodness knows how many books ive ruined by wetting them accidentally 😔

4:30 "you can actually remove the guilt by using a cuticle stick, and then you can clean up your guilt" where can I buy this?

She did an absolutely amazing job. The new spin looks fantastic and the inside of the cover and the pages look like they are original, the owner will be so pleased!

Delightful and professional presentation, Sophia Bogle. You have a lovely voice that enhances the video.

Her voice is so calming. I want her to read me a book to sleep 😭😭😭😭

I just bought (2) 150+ year old English ship ledgers and this is a goldmine of knowledge for me to try and restore it! Thank you!

She: Pours water Me: Nooooo! Also Me: O okay, part of the process 😂😂

Bro, just enchant the book now dood, we've been waiting here for 3 hours already

Wow.. I feel so relieved.. I don't know what is in this but I love binding and taking care of my books it's so soothing ❤️

I have a 70 year old book right next to me, she's in pretty okay condition if I say so myself. A little bit of wear on the cover but all the pages are intact and no bind breakage yet ^^

The book restoration is just as "Fairy Tales" as the tittle itself 😊

While watching this video, it flashback my memories from when I used to go to the library and read some Hans Christian Andersen books. The good times when it wasn't still quarantine...

Dear Sophia, sincere gratitude for sharing your experiential knowledge with minute details and clear voice. You have certainly added to my knowledge. God bless you

This seems so therapeutic that I would love to learn how to properly do this. 😩🥺

Never knew you could clean up your guilt using a cuticle stick!

The music plus the visual of this video is amazing!

I am a librarian and I want to adapt this skill to revive the my books.

So relaxing. I'm not s reader, in fact in high school I hated to read but I love this.

I really didn’t know book restoration is a thing but its soo satisfying

Mrs. Sophia. What a great job you do. Some time ago, a person lent me the book, "The Pilgrim's Progress". I was fascinated, as it was the complete work, and the book was about 100 years old. Its condition was like the one in this video. Where I live nobody does book restorations like you do. Greetings from Bogota Colombia. I wish your videos were subtitled in Spanish.

Thoroughly enjoyed watching your restoration processes. Thank you for such a detailed and thorough video on how you bring these back to life.

Who already knew that because they had already watched You from Netflix?

This is the best new KZfaq series I’ve discovered

Now this is something I would absolutely love to learn.

The pages looked so clean after soaking! I wonder if it got rid of the smell old books sometimes have.

Thank you! I just received an 1855 book of flowers that is in need of repair. I've made enough new books that I'm confident I can restore this one myself.

High acid content paper from the nineteenth century is turning many books into mush. It is imperative to have professionals to care and prepare these old treasures. These experts are saving history one page at a time. We are extremely fortunate to have experts like her to save our written treasures!❤

I didn't even know this was a thing. Thank you for sharing!!!

amazing! you need distress ink with a small sponge for the edges of the paper. I make a ton of antiqued paper for journals etc. The dark smudges, smears are easy to do with distress ink by Tim holtz. You will love the stuff, all sorts of earthy shades... Great job!!

Who would have thought that one of the keys to cleaning a book is hot water! That's would seem like a Cardinal Rule "NO". So cool!

Me after being so focused on the instructions: Oh sht.... I forgot to arrange the pages

If they didn't talked in these vids this would be the best asmr

I have a friend who went to school for this and there's so much more to it than what she's showing.

I just found quite a few 100 & 150+ year old books in our library. Soaking pages that old seems terrifying! I can certainly see why book conservators get paid as much as they do for restoration! What about different types of paper? Brittle pages that are near to becoming dust? Water soluble inks? I imagine you'd need to test a page 1st? I think we may look them up, as the older ones may belong in a museum (one was apparently for a Duke in England. The plate prints in it are amazing! I found an old roll book for those from the US who fought in WWI as well. I don't want to lose these treasures! These will be amazing if we can get them back to where people can handle them, again. I'm hoping we can do that! I'm asked to see if we have a book conservator in our church, and am waiting for an answer. I know a little, but it would be certainly nerve-racking to try this with very important and rare books! that are irreplaceable! I'm hoping we have someone local that can not only restore these books, but that I can learn more first-hand from them. I could try with perhaps some that aren't as important, but those irreplaceable books certainly I would feel FAR more comfortable having a professional work on them. We have one with color plates, that were certainly rare for their time. I would like to preserve them for another 150 years, if possible! We have one that the page edges crumble on touching them. I was thinking perhaps a hot lamination to hold the remaining paper together??? Thank you for sharing this process! I may try it on one of my 100 or so year-old books? Perhaps on a page that is blank? I'm sure most of that old ink was oil-based, BUT I wonder if some is not? The one book with pages crumbling is a big concern. Can you refer me to a more in-depth tutorial? Perhaps a professional book conservator in the Los Angels area? Thank you! Great video, but so many questions and concerns!

Completely random fact: There are more molecules in one glass of water than there are glasses of water in all of the Earth's oceans put together.

Excellent video. I look forward to watching your other videos. I'm presently interested in saving some rare water damaged and moldy books. Thank you.

Such a beautiful neat job, I could almost smell the book at the end!

Think about how many people from different generations and races touched and read this book before it reached her. Knowledge is truly immortal.

Good to see the skill and talent alive in todays Internet and Virtual world. Virtual world cannot be secured for long time. But books, stone carving can stay for years to come and generations in future can see and feel it.

watching restorations is always so peaceful and awesome

This is beautiful. I've repaired some antique books but the issues were really simple. I've wanted to learn how to do this for years, it really is an art form. Wow, she is really good. And this is such important work.

"And then you can clean up your guilt"....Yayyyy 🎉

She is truly and artist. This video was simply mesmerizing. I would love so much to be able to do this.

This woman will teach you to clean up your guilt

I loved the video, the way it is narrated and shot - but she suddenly went from reparing one single page to glueing the top back on. There was no reassembly and I wanted to look how she dried the pages without them wrinkling. Lovely work and the book looks phantastic in the end.

This is gorgeous!

I collect old books. I really want to get into restoring them and repair them

I remember doing this kind of stuff in my paper conservation, and preservation class in GradSchool. ☺️

I do the same thing, too, you know. That's, restore all hardbound books inside and out. I even restore old newspapers' funnies. I even expected old paperback books to be restored.

Now this is quality

Everybody saying how anxious/surprised they got when she put the pages in the water and they weren’t damaged at all, but it seemed so obvious to me... I mean, it’s just water, and paper is generally made of cellulose, which doesn’t react with water I think (not a chemistry specialist, just my humble opinion :P)

She made this look so easy, and I’m sure it took years to develop this skill

This is going to my ASMR playlist

I've been thinking of restoring some old books that got ruined by storm and I want to try the tips here but I gotta admit I am terrified of immersing the pages in (mildly) hot water

..And then you can clean up your guilt (guild) best line😂😂

What a beautiful marbled paper you used for the endpapers 😍

Amazing! Really beautiful. Thank you for sharing.

Inspirational. Thank you so much. I am collecting music manuscripts by H. Baynton Power and some of them are in a very sad state. This is wonderful information to have.

This is actually incredibly satisfying

You do such beautiful work! Thank you for your video!

How much did it cost to do this? Must mention the price, to make it meaning for us watchers. Thank you!

I've heard of ripping out the last few pages of a book, never heard of gluing a bunch of pages back in lol

this is chopped up i wanna see the full version, i wanna know everything she says, i want knowledge

Don’t know how I got here but loved it. Very fascinating and I love to read. Great video 👍🙂

I want her job. You are restoring a part of history.

Joe? Is that YOU??!!

I have Two Antique books, One Is around 125 year old, 2nd is around 70 year old.

I need her to do a KZfaq channel where she posts this stuff, best thing I’ve seen on KZfaq in 2021

Thank you for this video; amazing to see how well the pages cleaned up. So excited to see an old book get an extended life; you just can beat the feel of a great old book.

Wow thank you I love books and I am going to learn from you how to repair books love it

she takes care of these books better than i take care of myself

Lovely video! Beautiful accompanying music by the way!

Please make it on 4K. Great video!

Beautiful work

But doesn’t adding pages of a book that ‘Connects’ with the book affect it at all? I mean that’s clearly not what the writer wrote or intended to be included in the book right

The washing of the pages with Hot water had me SHOOK

04:30 "You can actually remove the gilt by using a cuticle stick" But I need a cuticle stick that can remove guilt.

5:10 I really need that colour wheel 😲

This video seems to leave out the replacement of the spine leather. Would like to know how that was done.

It is vital that she doesn't screw up the process!

Clean up your guilt :(

*Watching the entire process is so damn satisfying.*

“ Clean up your guilt “ 😂 I know you didn’t mean it, but it was a interesting quote.

This is where I go after reading Inkheart five times in a row . . .

It goes to show that not every great things are needed to be brand new.