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Preserving books with ‘sniff test’
December 5, 2009 | 3:44 am
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By Chris Meadows
Found via BoingBoing: scientists have developed a test that analyzes the gases emitted by old books to determine the book’s condition. This lets archivists customize their preservation techniques used for a book based on its condition.
This new technique is important because it does not require taking physical samples from the book for analysis—a process which necessarily damaged the book, the antithesis of preserving it.
The technique could help preserve other historical artifacts, as well.
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Chris, on this issue, and partly in humor but also serious, i have read somewhere that some e-reader devices in the future might come with added-value add-ons like a vapor scent that releases the smell of a book around the e-reader person reading the ebook. really. other scents will be food cooking, flowers, you can choose from like 25 scents. maybe around 2025 this will be possible.