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Topic: At least a third of my book collection is dying.
Anonymous A started this discussion 2 weeks ago#137,376
I’m writing down titles, authors, and ISBNs. It’s not a valuable collection but a lot of these books are hard to come by or out of print. The problem being I bought a lot of used paperbacks from the 1930s-1960s and many simply have dry rotted with age. One turned to pulp and dust when I opened it. Lots of history and classic science fiction.
Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 2 weeks ago, 8 hours later[^][v]#1,455,343
Thats just the inherent problem with physical media though isnt it? Old and rare books should be left in carefully controlled environments and left closed. If i was more book minded, id look into bookbinding and maybe even study fonts and just make physical copies for referencing and display.
> Thats just the inherent problem with physical media though isnt it? Old and rare books should be left in carefully controlled environments and left closed. If i was more book minded, id look into bookbinding and maybe even study fonts and just make physical copies for referencing and display.
I’m considering scanning some of them at least into PDFs. After all, digital media is so easy to handle with multiple backups and migrations…