My Secret Vice

[Kuruharan]

I actually reassembled them and bound them with duct tape; I technically still have them

You should have used clear plastic tape. It’s so much better in that you can still see the cover and stuff.

Not, of course, that I would know about such things from personal experience.

I must admit I own a copy of The Fellowship of the Ring that could charitably be described as "tattered" (or rather more accurately "destroyed").

You can still read it if you hold it together just right.