100% cotton or hemp can easily be made acid free. (Acid free hemp paper should last millenia )
Mal: Does.. um.. does this seem kind of tight? Kaylee: Shows off your backside.
'Shindig'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Typo Boy - Jan 21, 2009 3:44:36 pm PST #8325 of 28431
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Ginger - Jan 21, 2009 7:02:26 pm PST #8326 of 28431
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Newsprint has a high acid content, although it's lower now than it was. That's why old newspaper clippings crumble to pieces. Pulp magazines and paperbacks are particularly prone to falling apart in your hands. There are some easily available pH neutralizing products now, if you have older paper you want to keep. Acid also eats away at artwork on paper, which is why you want acid-free mats and backing. Regular cardboard has enough of an acid content to ruin paper things stored in it, so my stored art is in acid-free boxes or plastic.
If you wish to be further traumatized, the Kodak Company claims that it never intended color photography to be permanent. All your grandparents' pictures are fading into faint brownish blobs.
Typo Boy - Jan 21, 2009 7:06:43 pm PST #8327 of 28431
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
For further trauma, those backups you made to CD are not permanent either. Commercial CD's are embossed, which is why they last a long time. CDs (and I think DVDs) you make on a typical home or office computer are burned and therefore not permanent.
Laga - Jan 22, 2009 9:57:24 am PST #8328 of 28431
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I was just telling the owner of the newly opened used bookshop in my neghborhood that his store doesn't yet have that old bookshop smell.
Polter-Cow - Jan 26, 2009 5:53:23 am PST #8329 of 28431
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
The Graveyard Book just won the Newbery.
beth b - Jan 26, 2009 11:30:43 am PST #8330 of 28431
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
thank you p-C!
and Congratulations to Neil -- he may not be one of us, but he feels like one of us
beth b - Jan 26, 2009 11:49:19 am PST #8331 of 28431
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
and the controversy begins -- is it too scary for kids. ( this is the talk in the emails at my library) I have to say I think Coarline was much scarier. And we have other books that really should be in the children's section that are there....
Atropa - Jan 26, 2009 11:51:58 am PST #8332 of 28431
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
The Graveyard Book just won the Newbery.
Which it completely deserved. Just a fabulous book.
and the controversy begins -- is it too scary for kids.
Coraline is a much scarier book, and I think both it and The Graveyard Book are perfect for kids.
beth b - Jan 26, 2009 12:02:08 pm PST #8333 of 28431
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Agreed. I have to say that I am also thrilled that Savvy by Ingrid Law got an honor award. Really good and I've been pimping it to kids for months now. ( pimping doesn't really belong in a sentence with kids, but ...)
sj - Jan 26, 2009 12:03:07 pm PST #8334 of 28431
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I think the scariest part of the Graveyard Book is the first few pages but not anymore than many other children's classics. I just read of review of the Dangerous Alphabet that said it was much too scary for its age range, which I disagreed with too.