"As of 2014, it holds over 8 million printed volumes and over a million ebooks. . . . . It is the sixteenth largest library in North America, ranked by number of volumes held." So says Wikipedia concerning the Cornell University Library.
Probably all of us, regardless of how committed that we are to ebooks, have a substantial number of physical books still lying around. With 8 million physical books in its collection, the Cornell Library certainly would know about how to take care of those books, if anyone does. Wouldn't they? Wouldn't you love to tap into that expertise?
Well, thankfully, the Cornell Library wants to help us to do just that. They have published a booklet of some 35 pages in length, written by their own book conservator, called
Preserving Books in Your Home Library. And they're making it available to everyone,
free, as an ebook (the irony of that hasn't gotten lost on me. ha).
Thirty-five pages doesn't sound like much, and it isn't, but the author uses great economy of words, and gets right to the point of each topic. And what she writes is very clear, so that makes it easy to understand. The booklet is chock-full of beautiful color images--some for instructive purposes, but perhaps most for visual interest. They certainly draw you into the book.
Grab the ebooklet from
this direct link.