On 6 Dec 2005 07:57:05 -0800, with neither quill nor qualm, jim rozen
quickly quoth:

In article , Adam Smith says...

the books to formaldehyde crystals in a sealed garbage can. You can't really
de-innoculate paper, once it is innoculated with mold, all you can do is
ensure that they don't stay in conditions for the mold to grow ...

Has anyone ever considered irradiating books to scramble the mold's
genetic information? This is how they treat foods, basically just
run them under a high flux cobalt source.

I could imagine that curing the problem once and for all.

Neighbor, could I borrow your Mr. Gamma Food Irradiator for a few
minutes, please?


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