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Can we talk about the old book repair station at the St. Louis library
I saw them using a bone folder from the 1950s to set a crease and it hit me how much we rely on simple, well-made tools that last forever.
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grantl946mo ago
Right? That's the real stuff. I bought a "professional" vegetable peeler last month and the handle cracked already. Meanwhile @hugopark is right, that bone folder is from an era where things were just MADE. They had one job and they were built to do it forever. My whole life feels like a pile of fancy trash next to that one simple tool. It's honestly a little embarrassing.
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rowant665mo ago
Remember they also made things that were total junk back then, they just didn't survive. We only see the good stuff that lasted. My grandma had a drawer full of broken tools from the 50s. We're comparing the best of the past to the average of today, which isn't really fair. Plus, that bone folder works because its job never changed, try finding a 70 year old phone.
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hugopark6mo ago
Oh man, that's amazing! We're all out here buying the latest gadget that breaks in a year, and the library's just quietly fixing books with a tool older than my dad. My "fancy" kitchen knife can't hold an edge, but that bone folder is still doing its one job perfectly after 70 years. It really makes you look at all the cheap plastic junk we settle for now.
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