Two years of bookbinding and I just realized I was gluing my spines backwards

I was at a meetup last month in Portland and someone looked at a book I brought and said "hey your spine is facing the wrong way" and I laughed thinking they were joking. Turns out I had been putting the grain of the paper the wrong direction on every single hardcover I made. No wonder they never opened flat. Has anyone else had that moment where a total stranger spotted something obvious you missed for years?

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walker.hayden25d ago

Thats actually kind of impressive.

olivia_hernandez25d ago

Did you ever try selling any of those backwards ones at a discount as "left handed editions" or something? I once spent three months knitting a scarf before realizing I was twisting every stitch, gave it to a friend who actually liked the weird spiral look.