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Hussein Kessvani was out of a job and, like most of us, suddenly had to spend almost all of his time at home.

He needed something to do.

And so I just suddenly had a lot of time on my hands and I was looking at like my books

and there were like a few books that just weren't in particularly good shape and I

and so I just got very curious about like okay how can I fix them?

But he'd never thought of himself as a particularly handy person and really he had no idea where to start

And a lot of bookbinding is also just about it's you know it is about construction so it's about like using like particular kinds of you know saws and knives in order to like cut things to very specific proportions

So he started online digging through anything he could find on YouTube just to learn the basics.

But after I had kind of gotten free of him, I was interested in learning more kind of refined skills.

So these were stuff like, you know, how to do particular quite complicated sewing techniques.

There isn't really a lot of material on YouTube to do that.

So I just stumbled upon the Reddit, the subreddit,

which was called Our Book Binding, which had all these answers, and were just you know people who were hobbyists

and enthusiasts and some people in most groups were very willing to sort of

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