The manuscript references have all been entered into LibraryThing, resorted, reshelved, and purged. That's a fairly major accomplishment, and one I'm very pleased with. Now I need to pause, because I'm right on the cusp of where any room being reorganized temporarily looks like a bomb went off in it - and I don't have time to deal with losing the library right now.
I've got two questions though - one general, and one specifically for
safiya_shirazi:
1) For anyone with a clue - I have one book that is terribly musty. It came from a used-book sale. Holding it, it's fine. Open it up and the smell damn near knocks you down. It's a great book, but I can't work from it because it reeks. Is there any solution for this, or should I buy a new copy and recycle the one I've got?
2) Hey Safiya - I'm divesting myself of "Persian Miniature Painting" and "Mirror of the Invisible World: Tales from the Khamseh of Nizami." Want them? They're very pretty books, but I've never used them, and likely won't.
EDIT: I figured I deserve a new userpic for the occasion...
I've got two questions though - one general, and one specifically for
safiya_shirazi:1) For anyone with a clue - I have one book that is terribly musty. It came from a used-book sale. Holding it, it's fine. Open it up and the smell damn near knocks you down. It's a great book, but I can't work from it because it reeks. Is there any solution for this, or should I buy a new copy and recycle the one I've got?
2) Hey Safiya - I'm divesting myself of "Persian Miniature Painting" and "Mirror of the Invisible World: Tales from the Khamseh of Nizami." Want them? They're very pretty books, but I've never used them, and likely won't.
EDIT: I figured I deserve a new userpic for the occasion...
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http://www.jenesco.com/cart/Ozone-Generators/FM-14.html?gclid=CL-_mbe-87ACFYao4AodIRWbFQ
sadly, probably more expensive that the book is worth.
I actually have one book that I would do that for. This, however, is not that book.
I'm fairly certain that they came from library sales, so I don't have a lot of money sunk into them. I'm happy to see them get a good home - and to reclaim the shelf space!
Woohoo!
What the link says to do is to set the book in the sun, opened-faced, with baking soda between the pages. Turn the pages to air them out every so often. Remove the baking soda after a few days, repeat as necessary. I have done this, and it does work. Talcum powder can also do the trick. Good luck!
noodlesbooks. Add in a husband who doesn't want to throw things out and ...we has must too.The one at my mom's house, I stole a trick from the big Florence floods decades ago -- I put the worst-soaked & most important ones in her freezer immediately, since her freezer was nearly empty at the time. I brought them out to solar-dry as other items completed.
For future reference (and may you never need it), this works better with older single-color books than it does with glossy modern paper. Especially the ones with color pictures, most of those stuck together badly. Thank goodness those are mostly replaceable.