The Book That Ate Princeton

Basically, what we have here is a huge-ass book with a built-in death wish. Like, no matter what you do to it, it will eventually die due to a silly little thing called gravity (elephant folio ≈ 2 feet tall). Hence the incredibly damaged state it was in when it got to me. So I had to do a split-board binding on that ginormous fucker and it was not fun. And did I mention there are two of them? I was forced to make a rule: Only one book trying to kill me per week. So last week was Volume 2 and this week was Volume 1 (which was in worse shape, but thankfully I learned a bit from Volume 2, so I think it went faster? Last week's was 400+ minutes... I haven't added up this week's cuz it's not quite done).
Anyway, there's another one that's slightly shorter (thank the Preservation Gods)-- of course it's also thicker ("thanks", Preservation Gods), and of course, I have to do all three of them myself because I have the dubious honor of being the Tech who gets given all the problem child books.