Does anyone know how to completely remove all pages from a book and replace them?

[Frank]

^^^ I am trying to make a lovecraftian necronomicon.

 

[Sigma-LS]

You mean unbind it and rebind it or just stripping the cover off and putting a different book inside?

You can just cut the cover off and then glue some bound leaves in the there if it's roughly the same size. Just take a quick look at a hardback and you see how it goes in there. Other than that, proper application of watered down white glue with a paintbrush and use of a couple clamps to make sure it sets right I guess.

That's how I've rebound my old Btech sourcebooks from the 80's with loose pages and covers anyway. After 3 years they're still in really good shape.

Not read a lot of Lovecraft so I don't know the specifics of how the thing is supposed to go together. Can be a little more detailed if you provide some more details.

I mean my textbooks, hardbound novels, and my family bible from the 1800's are all hardback but bound in different ways.

 

[Wakeem]

I know book conservation people know how to do this. I had a book rebound before as the pages were beginning to loosen. They fixed (replaced) the binding. It was fairly expensive but the book was expensive so it was worth it.

 

[Construct]

Try this Instructables pictorial guide.