Klarinet Archive - Posting 000442.txt from 2003/04

From: "Raycraft" <raycraft@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Hello + Klose
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 00:36:18 -0400

> <><> Parts of the back appear to have been eaten by something. Can
> anyone give me some ideas on how to protect it from further
> disintegration?
>
>
>
> Set out some floor hamster traps !!!
>
> ...but seriously, it could be silverfish, who love paper. A couple of
> bug bombs may solve this, plus emptying and sweeping your shelves or
> boxes where the book was stored, opening the books themselves and
> riffling the pages, and so forth. Let some light in.
>
> Cheers,
> Bill

My thought was that possibly in addition to whatever has eaten it,
the paper itself may be old and brittle, and it may not stand
up to much page-turning. It might be good to find a newer edition
of the book to actually *use*, and maybe keep the old one around
as a "collectible"? If there are pages in that edition that you really
want to play, you could make photocopies of those pages for
your own use, and store the original away in a silverfish/hamster-proof
place..... ;-)
Sue

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