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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jester David" data-source="post: 6372107" data-attributes="member: 37579">One thing to try when you get books like RPG products that will be used a lot but need to last a long time is to lightly stress the pages. Turn each page and apply pressure in the gutter. You can do this every page or every 3-4 pages if you feel pressed for time. It gets the pages used to being turned. However, the PHBs do seem to be loose pages (not folios and not sewn together) that have been glued to the spine. This is not the best way to make a book: if/when the glue cracks the pages are at greater risk of falling out. It's common among cheap printers/publishers, such as Scholastic. And the book more at risk if improperly stored or held, such as holding the book with the pages down, so the weight of the pages pulls on the glue weakening the binding. This is certainly frustrating for a product designed to be used again and again, let alone one priced as a premium product. But so long as you're careful with the book, travel with it spine down, and keep the book out of direct sunlight you should be fine.Of course... it should be noted that the binding looks similar to that of the 3.5e and 4e PHBs, so the chances of failure are not that much greater with the 5e books.</blockquote>