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That $15 lot of vintage sci-fi paperbacks had 3 books with crumbly brown pages
I grabbed a box of old sci-fi from a thrift store in Dayton, thinking I got a steal, but three of them are literally falling apart when I turn the pages. Anybody else run into this with paperbacks from the 60s and 70s?
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gonzalez.vera8d agoOG Member
Same thing happened with a bunch of old Ace doubles I got at a flea market. That crumbly brown paper is almost always from the cheap acid pulp they used back then. What worked for me was carefully copying down the neat bits before they got worse, especially if it's a story you can't find online easy. The_morgan mentioned Asimov novels turning to dust, so I bet it's a common problem with those old print runs. Did you manage to save any of the pages or just trash them?
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