Never thought I'd be watching a tutorial on how to open a book, but here I am. Very informative. I now have incentive to open my sealed omnibuses! Excellent stuff!
I just watched this and immediently checked my berserk deluxe edition and sure enough the first chunk of pages are fucked. Did not even realize this was something you're supposed to do. Glad I know from here on out now
This is a very important lesson to learn. I collect sewn bound books before I discovered comics. :D I'm a newbie. Nothing I scream louder at is people reviewing Omni's and start with a freshly opened book and start on page one. I can almost feel the stress on the spine!
I have had serious anxiety with omnibus books for years despite liking having as much in one book as possible and this video is changing my whole game Thank you for this!
Your every Spider-Man Omnibus vid convinced me to buy my first omni, your recommendations have led me to the golden goose that is InStockTrades, and I don't recall which video it was but I learned this technique from you too. Thanks for all the great life choices, stay minty fam.
Gotta tell you man I really appreciate your channel and your informative videos. You have inspired to finally order my first omnibus which I’m getting delivered tomorrow! 10th anniversary Flashpoint omnibus I’m so stoked bro! Can’t wait to stretch that spine🤘😎
From personal experience with other books, that damage was caused due to the perfect binding of the book (the glued binding) and most likely storing the book with the spine face up. As a result the spine collapsed, which caused both of the terrible folds in it which you can see at the end of the video. Also note how the outside of the spine imploded and the outer covers are bowed, this sort of damage points to the book being stored with the spine facing up and gravity pulling it down. The damage isn’t from reading, rather it is from improperly storing the book.
@@bernielockard1827 I would think they mean that it was possibly stored in a box, with other books, and the spine was facing up so if you opened the box you would see the spine.
I thought the same thing. When he showed the book at the end I was like “that has NEVER happened to any of my hardcovers”, I think you’re right it wasn’t properly stored.
Great vids man. You cover so many good topics. You should redo your "every omnibus released so far" vids now that you're using a better camera, showing more book content, and with your intro and other effects. I've been wondering about the upcoming X-Men Revolution and Wedding of Cyclops & Phoenix books. Great videos dude.
Was literally searching for how you dust or what maintenance you do for your statues and found this. Just got my first Omni and had no idea! That’s for being a real one Gem!
Who would think that there would be a video on how to open an omnibus? Lol. But thanks. I have the 10th anniversary of Final Crisis and it’s huge. I just followed your lead. Thanks. 👍🏻
good video. Thanks, I knew none of this and I'll check some of my older omni's. I have some DC books that I have checked since viewing this vid and so far they aren't damaged like your Daredevil book.
I just got a new omibust manga of Highschool of the Dead and wanted to know how to read it so I don't damage it. I have other omibust mangas but they are not in hard cover which I had know problem reading. With this one I didn't want to risk it, I'm so glad I found your video and thank you for it very much. I learned a lot.
This was awesome. I didn’t know of this, and I found I some what damaged my New Teen Titans Vol. 1. I just used this for the rest of my omnibus books, so thanks!!
Thanks man, having some issues with one of my berserk deluxe copies and wanted to see if there were any preventative measures. I'll try this from now on.
Never realized you had to do this. I have OCD about things like books being messed up. Along with them being expensive just pisses me off when they are beat when dumbass at amazon ship them in paper bags. Imma do this from now on thanks for the video.
One of my local bookstores was selling the BEFORE WATCHMEN omnibus for $75 and its spine was completely messed up. The binding seemed to have been torn off about half way. It’s a complete rip off that they were selling it at that price in the condition it was in. And that’s something I see all the time with bookstores and online. They’ll have an omnibus in absolute garbage condition but then still somehow expect retail price. Insane!! More people should watch this video.
Not many I would guess because a normal person usually closes their book after reading their omnibus. Most people take 2-4 sittings and don’t touch the omnibus in the next 5 years so damaged spines usually never happen
