Can we talk about how I was bagging and boarding wrong for 15 years?

A guy at a shop in Denver watched me shove a Silver Age book into a bag and said 'you're bending the spine, that board goes behind it.' Checked my old Marvels from 2009 and half have tiny creases I put there myself, has anyone else wrecked their own books without knowing?

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theas281mo ago

The "board goes behind it" thing got me too. I spent years putting the board in front of the book because that's just how I saw it done at my local shop back in the day. Went through my old X-Men run from around 2010 and found these little dents down the spine where the board edge pressed in every time I slid one in. Nobody ever told me it was wrong, the shop guys just watched me do it and took my money. Now I re-bag everything and cringe.

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