Saving Dungeons & Dragons

[Hypersmurf]

This is because book mold is insidious. Not only can it make you sick, it can spread to books that never got wet. If left unchecked, book mold can ruin a collection, the wooden shelves the books are stored on, and the health of the people who breathe the spores.

Got it statted as a Hazard yet?

-Hyp.

 

[Golem2176]

Try a hair blow-dryer!

 

[Buttercup]

Try a hair blow-dryer!

Actually, no. Wet magazine paper is so fragile that you will end up damaging it, probably so badly that the magazine is destroyed. And what's up with the roll-eyes? Why be snotty to people who are just trying to help, especially when they know a bit more than you apparently do about the subject?

 

[Hypersmurf]

And what's up with the roll-eyes?

I loathe that emoticon with a passion.

Very occasionally, I'm tempted to use it... and then I realise that that would make me a person-who-uses-rollseyes, so I don't

-Hyp.

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

From personal experience, trying to speed up their drying with a hair-dryer or microwave isn't such a good idea.

Staples in a microwave could be interesting, but not so good.

Buttercup, thanks for the lesson I would have never have known books could kill if it wasn't for you.

Hyp

 

[Oni]

It's thread like this that are one of the reasons that I really love ENworld. Helpful and informative.

Sorry about your trouble Abaxas, hope you save your mags.

 

[Abraxas]

Well, I don't think I'm going to have a mold problem

However - do you folks have any idea how many rolls of paper towels it takes when you're trying to dry 90 magazines? I've actually gone with a modified drying method with paper towels not between every page and have them drying in an unheated root cellar with a dehumidifier running full bore. The pages aren't sticking cause I flip through them periodically but they are going to be wrinkly. (I just don't have the freezer space to press and dry them all.) The dungeon mags seem to have gotten the least amount of water so I'm really happy about that.

Now the question is how do I flatten out the wrinkled pages later? I'm thinking of pulling out the staples in those magazines and then pressing the pages flat a few at a time. However, I don't want the print to stick, so I was thinking of getting a bunch of newsprint paper to interleave between the magazine pages and then pressing a whole bunch at once.