> My copy to has rippled pages too - shame :( > Diana (Northamptonshire, UK)
I've emailed Alice privately about this, and from her description of the ripples I think it is likely that the book was originally printed with the paper grain going in the wrong direction - that would mean that every book in the print run would eventually ripple. The only thing to do to get a flat page would be to take off the cover, unsew the text block, and flatten all the pages individually. I would have done that if I could have bought the copy that's on the Internet now but I've been outbid. If anybody finds a cheaper copy they'd like to sell to me, I'd be happy to buy it and dismantle it so Tess and the Professor could scan it for posterity. I need to get my own copy to dismantle because if you re-bind the book the pages will eventually ripple again, so I would probably just leave it unbound and save the cover in a box. (unless I thought up some clever way to bind it that would allow the paper to expand as it wants to) Adele North Vancouver, BC (west coast of Canada) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
