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Image 1 — Document your collection for insurance: new insurance records feature on RareBindings.net
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Document your collection for insurance: new insurance records feature on RareBindings.net

Hello lovely book collectors!

I wanted to share another update on https://www.rarebindings.net, the site I built to help keep track of all the special editions being released these days.

Have you ever wondered what would happen if your collection was damaged, lost, or stolen? Could you actually prove to an insurer what you owned and what it was worth? I recently added insurance records to help with exactly that.

For each book in your collection, you can now create an insurance record with:

- Condition grades for the book and dust jacket, plus any flaws and condition notes

- A replacement value, with optional appraisal details

- Purchase source, copy identifier (e.g. your number in a numbered edition), and provenance notes

- Photos of the book itself, such as the front, back, spine, signature page, number line, edges, and slipcase

- Documents like receipts and appraisals

Each record gets a unique reference number, and when you need it, you can export everything as a CSV, a formatted PDF report, or a full evidence ZIP that bundles the report together with all your photos and documents, ready to hand to your insurer or keep as a backup somewhere safe.

This pairs nicely with the collection valuations feature from my last post: the estimated value from recent eBay sales data is a good starting point when deciding on a replacement value for each book.

The site also supports saved searches and stock alerts, so you can keep an eye on specific books, authors, publishers, stores, or features without manually checking everything all the time.

RareBindings now supports:

- The Broken Binding

- OwlCrate

- Folio Society

- Subterranean Press

- Suntup Editions

- Grim Oak Press

- LitJoy

- Goldsboro Books

- Dragonsteel Books

- Moonlight Book Box

- The Locked Library

- The Bookish Shop

- Arcane Society

- Lit Escalates

- Waterstones

- Easton Press

- Centipede Press

- The Signed Page

- Conversation Tree Press

- Curious King

- MidWorld Press

- Page & Wick

- Bewitched Pages
- Fairyloot

- Smut & Sip

With more to come! As always, I'm building this as a collector myself, so feedback, bug reports, and store suggestions are very welcome.

Thank you!

u/KyleRowley — 6 hours ago
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Is this mold mites?

Sorry it is a little blurry.

I am checking my books for mold and such, and as I came to this book I found this little guy. There was another one about 7cm away. I have not been able to find more.

u/PerspectiveLive8850 — 12 hours ago
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Charged for SF&F, Even with Skip Form Filled Out

Was anyone else charged this month, even with their SF&F skip form filled out well in advance?

Last month I was told to ignore the plain text “Your recurring order charge confirmation from thebrokenbinding subscription” renewal email because the skips are collected until the 3rd, so this month that’s what I did… but then I was charged today.

How is everyone else skipping, are you emailing or using the form?

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u/Ryn_1991 — 15 hours ago
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Praying for the Hierarchy Series Deluxe edition Reprints for Book 3

I know this is copium but The Will of The Many sold out so quickly before I even knew it dropped. I completely missed out of owning my favorite series in these beautiful editions. I didn't want to order The Strength of The Few and never be able to get my hands on the first book. I need them to match on my shelf. Really hoping the Broken Binding will reprint these editions in a pack when the third book comes out next year.

u/lilkittygl0ck — 23 hours ago
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Petition for TBB to include original DJ artwork with Wheel of Time release (please sign)

TBB have recently included original retro dust jacket artwork with some of their SE releases. Inheritance Cycle, Hyperion, Sun Eater etc. Also alternative DJs with Of Blood and Bone, and others. In particular, I absolutely love the retro look of these DJs with the Royal Hardback formats that TBB does; Hyperion Cantos looks stunning with the old artwork, and I'd love it if they did this more often as even if you love the new artwork they do, it's nice to have it as a bonus.

Please consider signing this petition to guage interest in those who would like the original retro WoT DJ artwork to be included with their SE release starting next year as an additional bonus. Even if you're not interested, please consider signing anyway, as it would potentially allow a greater chance for those who would like the original art as a bonus to actually receive this as an additional item included with the series, without affecting the product you receive.

The plan would be to send this to TBB once signatures are gained to ask them to consider this. Please also share this link in any other forums you know of to increase exposure! Thank you.

https://c.org/gdf5F67F8Q

u/Pow_Surfer — 1 day ago
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The Shadow Gate slipcase

Just received The Shadow Gate with a slipcase. Dust jacket slightly crushed (example in pic), as it seems the case is too tight for the book, especially when wrapped in mylar.

Anyone else with similar issues?

u/Gold-Atmosphere-4406 — 16 hours ago
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Hyperion Replacements

I got my Hyperion set delivered in April but a few books came with defects and were returned.

It’s been over 2 months and the replacements still have not been shipped and have been informed they do not know when they’ll receive more stock and to wait longer.

This was my first BB purchase is this normal?

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u/MidoriNeo — 1 day ago
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Matching Sub order with tracking number

TBB's system is absolutely bonkers and confusing as hell. I receive an email saying they are shipping a bunch of orders. No tracking number attached.

A couple of days later, I get an email from, usually, Royal Mail with a tracking number saying they got an order from TBB.

If they ship multiple orders within a few days, it's a pain to match the TBB order number with the tracking number because each company sends a separate email, and TBB provides only their order number while Royal Mail provides only the tracking number. This is painful because I have to file for customs, so I need all the order details.

On top of that, I use skips often in my SFF, SF, and F subs, and it's happened multiple times that they ignored the request and still charged me. This is again annoying to keep track of, especially since order details/emails don't use titles, only "SF&F Subscription × 1" for example, so I have to manually keep track of everything and double check, because again, it's not uncommon to get charged for skips (skips where the form was submitted on day one so no delay on my side, TBB every time admits that they just messed up). They refund it, so there's no issue with that, but I have to keep track, and I have to notify them.

Sorry about the rant, it just gets chaotic and frustrating. Their whole website, order info, and using Google Forms to handle skips is incredibly poorly designed and seems stitched together by someone who doesn't have much experience with this and isn't technically savvy.

Not just to rant here, how do you all manage all this? I have a sheet where I track it, so that helps, but as I mentioned earlier, matching order number, tracking, and billing isn't so straightforward.

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u/theSpiraea — 1 day ago
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Are the pages supposed to sit like this? With the vertical lines? It's a brand new book.

The other ones don't look like this, they sit flush.

u/Known-Ad-100 — 2 days ago
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What is going on?

So after a long time of waiting for the John Gwynne fantasy books , finally got an email on Monday confirming something along the lines of “shipping very shortly, this week.”

It’s now Friday, after many months of waiting. What is going on?!

Yes I know it’s going to be worth the wait.

Yes I know delays are to be expected and in all honesty I’ve been really chill about it all.

But after that email on Monday, to not have it shipped this week I think it’s an absolute shambles and not a single person should be defending them.

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u/jmannn2 — 2 days ago
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Regarding cancelling

I signed up in March and have given them money up through this month and received nothing for it yet. I'm just going to cancel but I can't tell anymore what I'll be getting aside from this John gwyne series. If someone could shed some light that would be great. Best of luck to future subscribers but this has been an incredibly disappointing experience.

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u/pretentiousegghead — 3 days ago
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Waitlist

How long did it take for you to get off the fantasy tear 2 waitlist? I got an invite in march but did not have the opportunity to join that month. I put my self on the waitlist in December so i thought it was rather quick. I know that the The Faithful & TheFallen should be finished in July.
I have joined the waitlist again now, so is there any hope for me to join the next series they are coming with?
Also, when/where do they announce the next series for the subs?

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u/PositiveConcentrate6 — 3 days ago
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TBB Green City Wars - General Sale Is Live

TBB Green City Wars is available on general sale now!

Signed and designed endpapers, foil on boards, digital fore edge, block sprayed top and bottom, head and tail bands, Royal hardback

Cost: 24 GBP
Shipping: June/July

I’m pretty excited about this one, is anyone picking it up?

u/Ancient_Activity_614 — 3 days ago
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The title is completely rubbing off... Is this common?

These photos are less than 24 hours apart!

I always read books with the dustjacket on and this has never happened to me before! I just noticed it 5 minutes ago, so I took it off now but I'm afraid to touch it.

I doubt they'd send me a replacement cover and I wouldn't want to pay for the shipping anyway (I live in the US).

Has this happened to anyone else? Is there a way to fix it or a good paint/marker/pen that matches it well that I could go over it with to fix it?

u/neededaname8 — 3 days ago