[Publib] Cat litter

[Sara Weissman]

>>Is cat litter still the preferred thing to put in a bag with a book that 
stinks from old age and poor storage?

We've had very good luck with fabric softener sheets, two per average book. 
 Fan the pages several times, insert fabric softener sheets for a few days, 
refan, re-insert as needed, etc.  A week of this treatment tends to do it.  
The more so if you can stand books on a sunny windowsill.   Has worked on 
late 19th c. Wisconsin schoolbooks and ca. 1980s 
stored-in-dampish-basements tomes, all part of our local authors collection 
  http://www.mclib.info/mac.html

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