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Re: Smokey Books



I had occasion to look into the ozonation question on Conservation On-Line
<http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/> some time back. What I found put me off
suggesting this treatment for books and other useful objects.

   ---Terry

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Terry Abraham   Special Collections, University of Idaho
<http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/special-collections/>


On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Richard G. King Jr. wrote:

> Folks,
> Understand there are restoration companies that use ozone to remove smoke
> from material in disaster recovery.  You might want to check with a local
> firm that does does fire recovery work (maybe you can find through your
> insurance agent).  Don't know what harm this might bring to the books
> though.  If these are reading copies and not rare material it might help.  I
> have books in my personal collection from the library of a long dead
> collector who smoked cigars.  I can tell you that after years of use and
> shelf life I can tell within nanoseconds when i've opened one of those
> pre-smoked books.  Dick King, University of Arizona.
>
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