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griffin

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a mama here (was it mamabear?) mentioned that musty books are actually mold. is this just smell or should i watch out for yellowing too, ie yellowing but no smell is also mold?

thank you so much mamas. i actually gave away/threw out a large part of baby clothes that i was hanging on to unnecessarily. working on the books now, not wanting to throw them out but will if the old stuff is going to spoil the newer books.

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I don't know about it being mold but I think I remember that when I worked in an archive we would put musty old books that we wanted to keep in a trash bag with charcoal and it would remove the smell. You might do some research with that before you get rid of the books.

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I worked in a bookstore and the owner told me never to buy any books with that musty smell because yes, it is a type of mold and can "infect" other books. I was the used book buyer. I'm going completely on what I was told by the owner, but I'll do a little digging and see if I can corroborate it with hard evidence.

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mamabear

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Argh, I've tried to reply twice with no luck, my posts keep getting eaten.

Ok, sorry, I searched "musty books" (no quotes) in google and found plenty of links to information on the first page.

The owner of my bookstore was right -- it is mold, and can be passed on to other books. But they also give ways to clean them. You can never be 100% sure it is completely gone, so if you don't want to take chances, I'd toss the books. If you really want to keep them and don't mind taking chances of it spreading to other books, you could keep them and use any one of the cleaning methods they recommend.

Edited to add: yellowing but no smell is fine.

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thanks so much robin, lauren.

i have a good collection of new and used books but went overboard recently and bought too many musty ones second hand - my undoing. i am glad you posted the bit about musty books lauren, thanks.

i will store them separately for the time being, get round to reading them and then junk them.

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