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  1. 1Repair Revolution: How Fixers Are Transforming Our Throwaway CultureRepair Revolution: How Fixers Are Transforming Our Throwaway CultureThe organizers of a repair event need more than a room full of tools. Accounts of Repair Cafés and Fixit Clinics show how volunteer coaches pass on skills while visitors work on their own belongings. Start here if you want to see what makes a repair group useful to a neighborhood.0
  2. 2Mending Matters: Stitch, Patch, and Repair Your Favorite Denim & MoreMending Matters: Stitch, Patch, and Repair Your Favorite Denim & MoreThis is the one for jeans worn thin at the knee or a favorite shirt with a tear. Rodabaugh focuses on woven fabrics and gives readers several ways to make a patch part of the garment's design. Her essays connect keeping familiar clothes in rotation with buying fewer new ones.0
  3. 3The Right to Repair: Reclaiming the Things We OwnThe Right to Repair: Reclaiming the Things We OwnA thing you own can still be hard to fix if a manufacturer controls the parts or restricts what its software will let a replacement part do. Perzanowski explains how design choices, markets, and intellectual property law shape who can do a repair. Read it for the history behind the debate about…0
  4. 4Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of WorkShop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of WorkCrawford draws on his work as a motorcycle mechanic to make the case for skilled manual work. A fault presents a question that may take observation and judgment long before a part gets replaced. Pick it for the experience of figuring out what a machine is doing and why.0
  5. 5Kintsugi: The Wabi Sabi Art of Japanese Ceramic RepairKintsugi: The Wabi Sabi Art of Japanese Ceramic RepairA chipped rim, a hairline crack, and a vessel broken into pieces call for different decisions. Mochinaga's illustrated guide shows what those distinctions mean in the Japanese art of repairing pottery with visible seams. Compare the finished pieces to see how the old break becomes part of the…0
  6. 6The Care of Things: Ethics and Politics of MaintenanceThe Care of Things: Ethics and Politics of MaintenanceWhat does it take to keep a road sign readable or a cathedral standing? Denis and Pontille follow the people who notice wear and decide when something needs attention. Andrew Brown's English translation is a good choice if you're interested in the work that happens before a failure is obvious to…0
  7. 7The Repair Shop: Tales from the Workshop of DreamsThe Repair Shop: Tales from the Workshop of DreamsAmong the objects that turn up in the BBC workshop are a circus performer's sequined dress and a pump organ a member of the Windrush generation brought from Jamaica. Farrington follows the family history each object carries alongside the craftspeople's work. Choose this one for the reasons people…0
  8. 8On Mending: Stories of Damage and RepairOn Mending: Stories of Damage and RepairPym looks closely at where a garment thins and what a hole can tell you about the person who wore it. Her stories range from the traces left by everyday use to damage caused by moths or fire. Read alongside a practical sewing guide if you want to think about which traces you'd keep visible.0
  9. 9Maintenance: Of Everything, Part OneMaintenance: Of Everything, Part OneBrand opens with the 1968 Golden Globe solo sailing race and the upkeep decisions sailors faced far from shore. Vehicles, owners' manuals, and corrosion take the argument in other directions. Start with the race if you want an account of what changes when outside help is far away.0
  10. 10Fixation: How to Have Stuff without Breaking the PlanetFixation: How to Have Stuff without Breaking the PlanetGoldmark's experience running the Fixup pop-up repair business informs a wider account of the life of household goods. She connects what happens when an object breaks with the decisions made by the people who design, sell, and buy it. Read it if you're trying to understand what would make durable…0