Acid to Acid, Dust to Dust

Acid to Acid, Dust to Dust, spotted by Gary “Resource Shelf” Price, says In the labyrinth-like archives of the Germany’s libraries, millions of books are slowly crumbling to dust. The culprit: acid and the greediness of 19th century book publishers.

“Roughly estimated, you would have to pay five or six times as much” to microfilm a book as to remove the acid, said Hermann Leskien, the general director for the Bavarian Library in Munich.