Cast the Mending canrtip, or a Make whole spell (might be overkill though).
...or use scotch tape.
The latter has worked for me.
My book is not damaged beyond the pages falling out, so I'm wondering if there's anything I can do to fix it. I don't know how the pages stay together normally, but that weird black magic is failing. Any advice?
Gently and carefully tear all the pages out and put them into top loading sheet protectors.
Then put the protected pages into a heavy duty three-ring binder.
Use a scissors to cut the cover into front and back pages and slip them into the view covers of the binder.
I did this with several GURPS 3E books that fell apart on me. The "binderized" books are durable as hell, resistant to food/drink spills, lay flat to make an excellent dice rolling surface, and you can add errata to the pages or the binder itself as appropriate.
On the downside, they are bulkier and heavier than a standard AP book. This can be good or bad, depending on your needs for moving and storing the book.
The binding on those things is pretty horrid.
One Three-Ring Binder to Collect Them All, and from the dust protect them. In the Land of GMing, where shoddy book binding is found.
Yeah, it has been a bit bad for the first book, which has never happened before with any other AP module. Not loose pages (yet), but I can clearly see a crack in the binding between two pages of module one.
Likewise. I think Paizo should chat with the printers about that. Obviously someone is trying to improve profits by reducing costs... at the cost of quality. But without a quality product, you risk alienating buyers who WANT quality... both of the module design and of the printing quality itself.
Yup, my book one just popped some pages out...the other two will probably follow soon...bummer! First time for me with Paizo.
Hm, so this seems to be a more widespread problem with the first module than at first thought. Any comments from the devs about this?
Yeah, the cover on my second book is starting to come off. I'm being very gentle with the first book. I would also like to hear from Paizo if this being addressed.
I don't buy the hard copy to cut it up and put it into binders. If I wanted to do that, I would just stick with the pdfs and print them out.
And I just noticed that the second module also has a crack between pages. Given how Paizo just raised the price for their AP's, this is really a bit unfortunate.
Well, the crack in the first volume widened today into a fully loose page. :-/ Does anybody have experience with how Paizo treats requests for replacement modules for shoddily bound stock?
Well, I'll write an email. Thanks for the info! :)
My pages started falling out of my Sword of Valor the other night... Its the first time we had a Paizo paperback product just 'fall apart' due to poor binding but it didn't stop them from reaching Drezen...
My copy of Sword of Valor has also done something similar - the glue in the binding has begun to crack at the front of the spine and the pages look like they want to start escaping from it. I purchased my copy through my FLGS here in Perth, Australia, and was thinking it might have just been the stresses of shipping, but with others giving similar anecdotal evidence it's appearing less likely that this is the case.
Even if nothing can be done about the current products, it'd be nice to know that this has been paid attention to and the printers/binders can be spoken to in order to ensure a result of quality for products going forward.
Actually, writing customer service may be a very good idea.
As per suggestions in another thread, I've started folding my covers along the creases before reading to reduce stress on the binding. So far, no binding issues.