Caring for aging books is a specialty task, but there are fewer qualified craftspeople even as demand for preserving nostalgia grows. Customers are often looking to save heirlooms that are not easily replaced. Go Skagit takes a look at this trade in the Pacific Northwest.
Book Preservation Still Essential
Ian MacAllen
Ian MacAllen is the author of Red Sauce: How Italian Food Became American (Rowman & Littlefield, April 2022). His writing has appeared in Chicago Review of Books, Southern Review of Books, The Offing, 45th Parallel Magazine, Little Fiction, Vol 1. Brooklyn, and elsewhere. Find him at IanMacAllen.com.