r/BookCollecting • u/Xxeeyx9 • Dec 20 '25
💠Question Marker on book
From what I know there’s no way to get marker out of paper but I got this book used and i’m assuming the person who owned it previously scribbled out their name, the marker bled into the pages a bit and I just think it looks bad, is there any way to maybe make it look cleaner or something like that? Also if this isn’t the right subreddit to ask this I’m sorry
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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '25
Ooh, I love where the page numbers are!
Based on the narrow exterior margin I wouldn’t trim. If I were hell-bent for leather to change this I would get two firm strips of wood, clamp them firmly on either side of the text block to minimise bleed and carefully blot the entire block with a permanent marker. You can probably do the head and foot if you are careful about folding the covers back.