Book Maintenance

feargale

If a book gets soaked in water is there any way to rescue/restore it?
Thank you.

Tell me how

Seems to be a very time critical thread.

Open and wipe each page with an absorbent cloth such as a paper towel.
Place it in a warm place (such as hot press) to dry but continually leaf through all pages every 15 minutes or so for a couple of hours to ensure that they do not stick together.

Stigura

Feargale; I think buying a new copy is ye answer

okidoki987

Stigura wrote: »

Feargale; I think buying a new copy is ye answer

Let's hope it's not a 1st edition of something worth a fortune?

feargale

Tell me how wrote: »

Seems to be a very time critical thread.

Open and wipe each page with an absorbent cloth such as a paper towel.
Place it in a warm place (such as hot press) to dry but continually leaf through all pages every 15 minutes or so for a couple of hours to ensure that they do not stick together.

Thanks, but it has 600 plus pages. If I were to attempt what you suggest at my age I think I would be able to access a copy in the Great Library in the Sky before my copy was ready to read again.. I have it lying outside in the intense sun now.

okidoki987 wrote: »

Let's hope it's not a 1st edition of something worth a fortune?

No, but a nice book, Oxford Essental Dictionary of Word Histories, picked up for €4 in Charlie Byrnes, Galway.

Stigura wrote: »

Feargale; I think buying a new copy is ye answer

I reckon it's well out of print.

Stigura

feargale wrote: »

I reckon it's well out of print.

God, that's a bummer! I feel for ye. I really do I too like books.

Ye know the thing about, " What one thing would ye grab, if ye house was on fire? " ? I've always said; My First Edition copy of Mark Hovell " Rats And How To Destroy Them ". They can lay that on my chest, when they lay me down.

cletus

https://www.abebooks.com/products/isbn/9780425190982?clickid=1FwzloVJ8xyOUzQwUx0Mo3EHUkiTBHyRVwKY0M0&cm_mmc=aff-_-ir-_-64682-_-77798&ref=imprad64682&afn_sr=impact

There seems to be done copies available on this website

Tell me how

feargale wrote: »

Thanks, but it has 600 plus pages. If I were to attempt what you suggest at my age I think I would be able to access a copy in the Great Library in the Sky before my copy was ready to read again.. I have it lying outside in the intense sun now.

That'll probably melt the binding glue.

On the plus side, you will then be easily able to lay out all 600 hundred pages and dry them much more quickly.

feargale

Stigura wrote: »

Ye know the thing about, " What one thing would ye grab, if ye house was on fire? " ?

Did anyone ever ask that question of Donald Trump?