Date:         Sat, 1 Jul 2006 09:28:46 -0700
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Subject:      Re: Baking books?
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--- David Lennick <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Actually if anyone has an answer
> to this or to the related problem of musty record jackets and
> labels (a problem I'm facing with
> records I've been buying from an estate, where there was a flooded
> basement), let us know.

Book conservators usually place them in a vacuum chamber and
draw the moisture out through evaporation.  If you heat the
paper you will probably both warp it and make it brittle.
A good way to preserve the book before the vacuum treatment 
is to freeze it.  Maybe you could have it freeze-dried by
a firm that processes freeze dried food?


David Breneman         [log in to unmask]

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