Suggestions from myself and others:
PRINTED BOOKS
1 Wear disposable gloves and wipe-clean apron to protect your clothes and hands.
2 Fold mouldy / moldy book inside paper towel (kitchen roll) or in zip-lock bag for transporting in car or house.
3 Wipe outside of book and edge with baby wipes.
4 Leave book in sun.
5 Consider removing blank endpapers and covers (modern book of no value just to save expense of replacing book).
6 Photocopy book in case another member of your family who is a cleanliness freak throws it out.
7 Photocopy cover in colour on high quality matt or gloss paper (to match original or front or back or spine) on your printer and glue or Sellotape new cover instead of or on top of old cover.
Check book publication date. Find out if book is still sold on amazon and at what price. Consider selling book on ebay, noting condition and any repairs. Ask charity shop for advice and if they will accept book. Offer it free on the free sites.
If book is of no use and no value but some end pages are blank, cut them out and reuse in receycling to save trees or as notepaper by the phone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bleKjhIPz4w
Several more videos on you tube include one on preparing books for selling on Amazon which demonstrates using an eraser. (In the UK we say rubber - which in the USA means condom so I've avoided that word because my tally shows I have lots of readers in the USA).
The same video about preparing books on Amaazon also demonstrates using rubbing alcohol.
I also have posts on travel and books on quotations and travel on lulu.com
Angela Lansbury (author)
PRINTED BOOKS
1 Wear disposable gloves and wipe-clean apron to protect your clothes and hands.
2 Fold mouldy / moldy book inside paper towel (kitchen roll) or in zip-lock bag for transporting in car or house.
3 Wipe outside of book and edge with baby wipes.
4 Leave book in sun.
5 Consider removing blank endpapers and covers (modern book of no value just to save expense of replacing book).
6 Photocopy book in case another member of your family who is a cleanliness freak throws it out.
7 Photocopy cover in colour on high quality matt or gloss paper (to match original or front or back or spine) on your printer and glue or Sellotape new cover instead of or on top of old cover.
Check book publication date. Find out if book is still sold on amazon and at what price. Consider selling book on ebay, noting condition and any repairs. Ask charity shop for advice and if they will accept book. Offer it free on the free sites.
If book is of no use and no value but some end pages are blank, cut them out and reuse in receycling to save trees or as notepaper by the phone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bleKjhIPz4w
Several more videos on you tube include one on preparing books for selling on Amazon which demonstrates using an eraser. (In the UK we say rubber - which in the USA means condom so I've avoided that word because my tally shows I have lots of readers in the USA).
The same video about preparing books on Amaazon also demonstrates using rubbing alcohol.
I also have posts on travel and books on quotations and travel on lulu.com
Angela Lansbury (author)
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