Paper stinks

by wschnell

I took the books I had in school (so they are 35+ years old), cut them apart and ran them through my scanner. The paper itself has a certain stench and I thought, well, the cellar … But it turns out that the paperbacks from the 80s, which I treasured, also have that odor. The acid in this low-quality paper disintegrates the pulp, colors it brownish and makes it super-dry. Yuck!

So what I am doing now is essentially taking the dying matter, freeing the info in it to get a new life inside my iPad, then burying the dead bodies.