How to easily and cleanly remove pages from books

A little trick I found to easily and cleanly remove pages from books.

Step 1 Gather materials

what you will need for this:

-string, just some plain white string found at your local drugstore or craft store, can also be yarn and some other strings I guess, although I havent tested those.

-a book you want to take a page out of

-water/wet mouth

Comments

[paulsbtq]

My fav method is ye ol table saw.. Just rip (by that I mean cut) the back off. Perfectly sliced pages ready to put in the scanner for PDF'afying.

[berky93]

this is better if you have a book you don't want to destroy but still need a page from.

[ebert2011]

It sounds to me like it still destroys the book but in this way you get to keep the neat binding of it... it just takes a lot longer

[LinuxH4x0r]

Cool! I'll remember this next time I rip apart encyclopedias

[berky93]

do I want to know...?

[LinuxH4x0r]

I bought a bunch of old ones from the university of MN once and took them apart. Some of the drawings are framed and I put them up on my walls

[Lithium Rain]

That's a really cool idea! I will have to do that.

[LinuxH4x0r]

i'll have to take a pic next time i'm back in MN

[berky93]

oh neat. I thought you were doing something more...psycho

[that guy with that hat]

3 words: Anna Karenina Wallpaper.

[berky93]

huh?

[Kaelessin]

it's a massive book that would provide more than enough paper to cover one's walls . . . I think I'd choose a more interesting* book though (whenever I get bored simply read the walls lol)

*more so to me that is . . .I don't mean to go around dissing the classics

[berky93]

hmmm. sounds like a cool idea. I'd try it myself (maybe with a different book) but I'm really picky about the outcome of my projects and adjustments are usually fatal to them, and I dont want to risk my walls... one thing you should know if you try this is that the edges where it was torn doesnt look really smooth like scissors cut it, but slightly rough like a really neat rip. it still looks fine and works great, but if you are a perfectionist you might want to lay the papers like shingles (slightly overlapping)

[Kaelessin]

yeah i've been tearing paper for years using the same principle . . .fold, crease, lick along crease, and tear Perfectly straight every time!

[berky93]

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[berky93]

lol I understand that.

[SurferGeek]

As seen on CSI: Vegas. ;)

[berky93]

lol yeah thats where I got the idea. but as you know, you can't trust everything you see on tv. so I tried it out, and it worked perfectly!