[Fai Mao]

An older article but a good start on preserving your collection of paperbacks

[Hulka]

“Who among us hasn’t got paperbacks that we can’t part with,”

My Louie L’amour paperback collection is gold.

[tbw2]

Their content cannot be banned by AI or edited in real time based on the demands of those in power. Sharing printed books is more private and harder to censor than social media and file sharing.

[Inyo-Mono]

Paperbacks’ chief fault lies in the often low-grade (inexpensive) components that make them harder to preserve.

Back in the day, paperback books were printed on cheap wood pulp paper, hence the name: "Pulp Fiction." Fine books (and 18th & early 19th Century newspapers) were printed on rag paper. Paper made from cloth rags.

[tinamina]

I wonder if this would cure my allergies. I read these old books and I get all plugged up in the nose and they make me feel kind of sick. I used to love to go to the secondhand store and buy paper back books for $.25 but then I couldn’t do it anymore because I was just too allergic.