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Originally Posted by astra_lestat
Where/how do you keep them??  |
On bookshelves. They get dusted regularly (which is quite a chore) and my house isn't at all damp but the paper does deteriorate. There's a particular mold that lives on paper that seems to take hold no matter if the books are kept dry or not. The older books I've bought used I can hardly touch any more. I have a lovely old collection of Shakespeare that belonged to an English teacher and has tons of notes in the margins. I love it but I can't hold it for more than a few minutes before the musty smell makes me ill and my eyes get all red. Sometimes at the public library I have to refrain from checking out a book I want because it's too old.