I took apart a commercially sewn book and when taking off the glue, the outermost sheet of each section took some damage. I often get away with only some minor roughening of the paper. In this case the text paper was thinned considerably though (one got even torn) and I chose to reinforce the fold before sewing again.
The process is pretty straight forward. I made some methylcellulose glue, cut some japanese tissue paper (it blends more nicely with the paper when torn instead of cut, but I suck tearing it neatly enough) and set up finn board, blotting paper and some Hollytex for drying.
Then I spread the methylcellulose on the fold area in the opened sheet, added the tissue paper and went over it with a soft brush and some more methylcellulose again to smooth down the tissue paper.
Once that is done the sheet gets sandwiched between a layer of
finn board,
blotting paper,
Hollytex,
the sheet,
more Hollytex,
blotting paper and
finn board again
and gets to dry with a wooden board and a weight on top.
Hollytex is a non woven and acid free polyester material that allows moisture to pass through while not sticking (too much) to glue. So that's really helpful to keep paper with glue or possible seepage of it from sticking to blotting paper. I don't use it for everything that has glue involved (especially not PVA) but whenever I can't clean up any seepage or have glued the surface of paper as a treatment.
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