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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
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On the cookbooks, I have over 1400 regular cookbooks and nearly 700 booklets. On all manner of cooking and some I won't touch due to their age.
About 1/3 are regional cookbooks.
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Please donate these to some institution where they can be scanned, for public use, and adequately protected. You can read the books anytime that you want to, then, and not have to worry about causing damage to them. As they are, they will continue to deteriorate, maybe to the point beyond which they can be scanned without a lot of restoration work.
I have no idea what your tax situation is, but these may be an enormous tax deduction, too.
I have an 1832-35 original bound volume of an old religious magazine, in pristine condition. It literally may be the only one left in the world. I have got to donate it somewhere where it will be safe, but I've just put it off. Too, I haven't decided exactly who should get it.