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How do I clean an old book's yellowed pages? Every time I read one of these, my fingers are left with a sandy greasy sensation.
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microwave
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Your fingers are gay, cut them off
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>>24941505
You baptize the book, obviously.
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>>24941505
You've got it easy. Just wear catering gloves.
I'm reading an 85 year-old edition of Gibbon. I can tell the original owner had short grey hair, because I keep finding strands of it every few pages.
The pages themselves are liberally stained with what I hope is chocolate.
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>>24942647
2025-85 = 1940
Chocolate was rationed during the war and would have been too expensive to smear onto a book
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The paper is degrading, it isn't "dirty"



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