Book Deodorizer - Smoking Books!

I just purchased ($12.50) a bottle of "Book Deodorizer" to use on some
books that came from a smoker's home. Instructions say to put book in
airtight container with a comparable amount of granules. Wait a few
days to a few weeks.

Will let everyone know whether this was successfu.

Art Layton
Stamford CT

In article ,
Wildwood wrote:

I just purchased ($12.50) a bottle of "Book Deodorizer" to use on some
books that came from a smoker's home. Instructions say to put book in
airtight container with a comparable amount of granules. Wait a few
days to a few weeks.

Will let everyone know whether this was successfu.


Kitty litter usually does the same thing if sealed in an airtight bag
with the book for a week or 2.

I tried this exact technique very unsuccessfully. Even after a few
months the books still stank.
Makes me wonder whether the brand of the litter is important...

Subject: Book Deodorizer - Smoking Books!
From: Wochak Pnutz
Date: 31/03/2004 08:57 GMT Standard Time
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In article ,
Wildwood wrote:

I just purchased ($12.50) a bottle of "Book Deodorizer" to use on some
books that came from a smoker's home. Instructions say to put book in
airtight container with a comparable amount of granules. Wait a few
days to a few weeks.

Will let everyone know whether this was successfu.


Kitty litter usually does the same thing if sealed in an airtight bag
with the book for a week or 2.

I tried this exact technique very unsuccessfully. Even after a few
months the books still stank.
Makes me wonder whether the brand of the litter is important...


perhaps leaving kitty out of the bag may have helped?

phew.....

ASD

"Giltedge04" wrote in message
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Subject: Book Deodorizer - Smoking Books!
From: Wochak Pnutz
Date: 31/03/2004 08:57 GMT Standard Time
Message-id:

In article ,
Wildwood wrote:

I just purchased ($12.50) a bottle of "Book Deodorizer" to use on some
books that came from a smoker's home. Instructions say to put book in
airtight container with a comparable amount of granules. Wait a few
days to a few weeks.

Will let everyone know whether this was successfu.


Kitty litter usually does the same thing if sealed in an airtight bag
with the book for a week or 2.

I tried this exact technique very unsuccessfully. Even after a few
months the books still stank.
Makes me wonder whether the brand of the litter is important...


perhaps leaving kitty out of the bag may have helped?

phew.....

ASD

I have used the book in a bag of South American Mangooly birds feathers
method for many years with great success.

Best regards
Diane
http://www.stores.ebay.co.uk/aaaworldofbooks

Call an insurance company to ask about how to get access to the ozone
chambers where books, clothing, legal papers & what-not are deodorized
after house fires. I don't know much of anything about the process, but
last night at a Book Arts Guild meeting, the guest speaker spoke in part
about her house fire, & the MONTHS it took the insurance company to get
her books back to her, the process evidently being quite slow with her
books & papers ozoned for half a year. But the smell of the house fire was
gone.

-paghat the ratgirl

--
"Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher.
"Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature.
-from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers"
See the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com/

"Diane" wrote in message ...
"Giltedge04" wrote in message

I have used the book in a bag of South American Mangooly birds feathers
method for many years with great success.

Best regards
Diane
http://www.stores.ebay.co.uk/aaaworldofbooks

My local grocer is out of Mangooly bird feathers. He suggested the
black dusted ptarmigan instead.

Art Layton
Stamford, CT

Is the odor of smoke so very bad? I derive great pleasure smoking among my
centuries old books and never considered I was doing them any harm... after
all, when they were new, candle and fire smoke must have permeated them and I
thought a good pipe odor was well... "character".

"KevinKJT" wrote in message
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Is the odor of smoke so very bad?

Yes. It is.

It may not bother you but smoke odor is a defect that should be noted if
ever you should sell your books.

I really hope you're joking...

cheers ~
Denise

In article ,
(KevinKJT) wrote:

Is the odor of smoke so very bad? I derive great pleasure smoking among my
centuries old books and never considered I was doing them any harm... after
all, when they were new, candle and fire smoke must have permeated them and I
thought a good pipe odor was well... "character".

I presume that's a satire as it's a bit like "I love my cat & think
tomcat-spray on books adds character" or in my case "I love my garden, so
all of my books have spent at least one week each buried in the compost,
which adds distinction."

I once had the chance to buy a very nice library of old first editions, &
would've bought the whole library if they hadn't belonged to a chainsmoker
& every spine on every book so darkened by smoke-stains that most of the
titles could no longer be read; the front & back boards by contrast were
undamaged, but those spines looked blow-torched. I did go ahead & obtain a
box of the least-often-seen things, & made a wild stab at cleaning the
smoke-yellowed spines, to no avail. A library that might otherwise have
been worth a great deal of money had been transformed into at best reading
copies, as salable as ExLib or Water Damaged or Underlined Throughout or
Smeared With Dog****.

-paghat the ratgirl

--
"Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher.
"Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature.
-from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers"
See the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com/

Hmmmm...... I don't smoke a pipe in the library every day, but now you have me
thinking.... Sure will take a lot of enjoyment out of the room for me.