Dammed shame, man!
I've had paper that bugs, termites and moisture have gotten into. (Bugs
and moisture are a fact of life here in Florida!) I put some baking soda in
a large salt shaker and sprinkle it between all the pages. It helps dry out
the paper and get rid of the smell. Close the books up for a while with the
baking soda in it then open them later and shake the stuff out. It might
help neutralize the acidity too.
Joe
At 05:08 PM 9/9/03 -0700, you wrote:
>I just found out that two of my magazine boxes were attacked by some damn
>little wormy things. They were white and about a quarter inch in length.
>They'd come up through a crack in the foundation of my warehouse and
>started eating away at the file boxes. Fortunately, they seemed to like
>the cardboard way more than the magazines, though they did take out
>significant chunks of a couple issues of Kilobaud Computing from 1979
>(bastards!) They also left a lot of wormy poop behind, and unless I'm
>smelling the acid from the paper breaking down, they left a stink too.
>
>Damn punk-ass bitch wormy things.
>
>Has anyone else had issues like this? How did these fuckers find my boxes
>out of all the damn cracks they could have crawled out of? What are they?
>Termites?
>
>Now I have to waste time filling in the cracks so this doesn't happen
>again. I can't have gawd damn wormy things eating my damn computer stuff!
>
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