Dicas da Brigit - Conservação de Livros 3 (Brigit's Hints - Conservation of Books 3)
Perdeu as dicas anteriores?
Estão aqui: Dicas da Brigit 1 e Dicas da Brigit 2.
Conservação de Livros:
E a limpeza? Posso usar pano úmido?
(A foto usada nesta postagem foi retirada da pesquisa de imagens públicas do Google)
The conservation of books:
Can I use a damp cloth to clean books?
At least once a year remove all the books from shelves / cabinets, clean them with a dry cloth and - with the hands perfectly cleaned - flip quickly through each one's pages before returning to the shelf, to air them.
Avoid spraying furniture polish on the shelves so that the product does not pass to books, use a slightly damp cloth to clean them and make sure to put the books back only when the shelves are absolutely dry.
Also, once a year a treatment for moths in the room is recommended.
Should I put another cover on the books?
Actually, there's no need. When we skin a book with brown paper, with plastic, with papers used do wrap up presents, with "contact" or other similar material we are helping an acid migration to happen, and this will surely undermine the book making the paper brittle and with yellow spots; this is because the material we normally use for wrapping a book (do not forget that it comes with a cover, so what's the need to put another cover?) is not adequate, it is acid, and such acidity is transmited to the book.
In addition, while wrapping a book we use glue (PVA) or adhesive tape that are as harmful as the acidic materials, the only difference is that the results are irreversible because to remove tape or glue off the paper we have to scrape it and this often rips the paper.
There are books that come with a protective mobile cover over the hard cover, and many people take this cover and throw it out, which is wrong. The papers used on these covers are adequate for the protection of the book (acid free), so keep them.
See you soon!
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