So... my pathfinder archive got damaged


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Long story short house fire but my books survived.

I'm going to remind my books but I realised there is an opportunity here. What if I broke up my bestiaries based on terrain or classification?

Like getting ALL the devils, daemons, and demons together in a single book.

Also how should I reskin them? I'm thinking green for the monsters red for the phb and black for the GMB


Back in AD&D 2e, the Monstrous Compendia were in 3-ring binders, so you could arrange them however you like.


personally the pdf versions are faster and easier to search and your entire bookshelf can fit on a thumb drive or memory card in a phone.

Rebinding the sewn sheaves of pages... hmmm...


I mean... yea... but my books... and my empty shelves

Azothath wrote:

personally the pdf versions are faster and easier to search and your entire bookshelf can fit on a thumb drive or memory card in a phone.

Rebinding the sewn sheaves of pages... hmmm...


Foeclan wrote:
Back in AD&D 2e, the Monstrous Compendia were in 3-ring binders, so you could arrange them however you like.

Not a bad idea honestly though it hink I'll have to reinforce the pages for that.


.Mr.Phox. wrote:
Foeclan wrote:
Back in AD&D 2e, the Monstrous Compendia were in 3-ring binders, so you could arrange them however you like.
Not a bad idea honestly though it hink I'll have to reinforce the pages for that.

Yeah, I reinforced mine with hole reinforcers, which are little stickers designed for that purpose and I'm definitely not giggling like a 12-year-old about them being called that.


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Personally if the cardboard filler is still there, slap a book cover over it and call it a day. More practical to buy replacements than take the books apart or try to repair water damage. If it was good ink on archive paper and a valuable work, then yes... but that's not the case here. As a collectable, altering it trashes any resale value...

Never use a spiral binder or coil binder on something you care about.
1-2" D-ring binders with page protectors filled with 110# paper at the ends to protect the pages inside.

Likely you'll have to take an exacto knife to the stitching to get the pages apart.

once pages separated you can use a tub with 2 cups of talcum powder(not corn starch) with 2 tablespoons of baking soda to help whiten the paper and raise the pH. This also helps bind any loose ink.
The printing isn't good enough to suffer a layer of clear car enamel over the ink.

Reinforcing stickers are kinda useless after 5 yrs as they pop off. Use a small square of clear packing tape folded diagonally over the edge then punch with 3 ring hole puncher (labor of love).

Store them ring up so the pages hang down. There are boxes to put your ring binders in.

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