1Collect the needed supplies. Set them up in a well lit, comfortable work area.
2Check the book over and mentally list all the areas to be cleaned. You can bookmark them, or perhaps list them if there are multiple soiled areas. This step helps you to get every spot the first time and will minimize the trauma to an older, more fragile book.
3Place the book on your padded work area in preparation for cleaning.
1Check to see if the cover, back, or spine needs to be cleaned first. If the book has an unpleasant odor, sprinkle baking soda between pages and close in a box for a few days.
For more details on musty odors in books, see .
2Follow the directions for proper use of any book cleaning compound you've chosen to use. Since this is likely to vary from product to product, it is not possible to outline the requirements of proprietary cleaning products here. However, note that your best source of supplier for book cleaning products will be a retailer or manufacturer that supplies libraries.
3Carefully and gently clean the outside of your book first and place it back on your padded work area.
Clean the spine edge first, proceed to the gutters, and then go across the covers to the edges.
Take care to avoid lifting any layers of covering such as leather corners or glued on insets.
Clorox or similar wipes are great for using on the cover. These can be used on paper, plastic, and wood but may be a bit too harsh for leather. Let it dry completely before returning the book to the shelf or storage.
Vellum bindings can be cleaned with cotton wool dipped in milk.
On covers that are fairly shiny and don't have absorbent paper, wiping with an essential oil such as lavender or tea tree will remove grime and marks. Use a clean cloth dabbed in essential oil.
4Gently leaf through the book and look for soiled pages. Mark them with a bookmark or list them for later reference. This will ensure that you avoid handling the book any more than is absolutely necessary.
5Clean the pages. When cleaning the pages, beware of the tendency of older paper to tear. To get rid of dust, gently shake paperbacks or fan hardbacks, as well as running a feather duster, very soft brush or other type of duster along the top, side and bottom edges of the book. You can also try the cleaning bellows used for camera cleaning, expelling air across the pages to lift dust. To gently clean the pages of marks:
For pencil and pen marks: Use an eraser made for pencil or ink. Erase slowly and gently. Biro or pen ink may be difficult to lift, don't rub too hard or the page risks tearing.
For other marks: Hold the cleaning cloth or tissue lightly. Do not scrub or rub a page. Move in one direction only, not back and forth. Wipe lightly in horizontal strokes from the spine edge to the outer edge. There are proprietary products that can absorb marks from pages, such as Absorene Book Cleaner. White ink erasers or very fine emery boards can be used for some smudges on page edges.
If pages show signs of insects, brush off eggs/insects/specks and wrap the whole book in plastic and place in the freezer for 24 hours. The freezing will kill off any other creatures. And be sure to thoroughly clean the bookcase area.
If a paperback is falling apart, a quick zap in the microwave can sometimes loosen up the glue enough for you to "reset" the pages in place.
After the first page is clean, continue leafing through the book for subsequent dirty pages to be cleaned.
6Remove any goo and bugs. Use a plastic knife or painters pallet knife to slowly move horizontally towards the middle of any bug or goo mound. Go slowly and carefully, to avoid ripping the page. If the goo or bug is squished onto the page, use some rubbing alcohol on a cotton swab to loosen it and remove the excess.
Proprietary goo remova just do a quick search online for an appropriate brand.
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Many musty smells can be eliminated with dryer sheets between pages. They should be left there for several days, depending upon the amount of smell.
Your cleaning cloth or tissue should be only lightly damp. A very damp cloth or tissue can allow cleaning fluid to seep into the page, causing water damage and possible smudging of the text.
Remove price labels with essential oil on a cloth, flour and water paste (make, let set, then peel off) or use a hairdryer on its lowest heat setting and hover over the price until it begins to peel away.
A soft, cotton cloth will hold grime well. Tissues are better for older or more delicate pages, but you can choose for yourself.
Cover the book with a dryer sheet inside and out.
Take extra care with leather, vellum and very old books. In many cases, self cleaning is rather, take it to an antiquarian bookseller or collector for advice tailored to the specific book's needs.
Moisture is an enemy of books. Ensure that the books are thoroughly dry before returning to shelves or storage.
Use only enough rubbing alcohol to get rid of the goo or bug. If you leak rubbing alcohol onto the book, it could ruin the book.
Soft cloth rag
Something to protect your work surface from the book and vice versa – an old heavy towel works well
Book cleaning compound - available from DEMCO Inc. (Madison, WI) or other library supply companies
Cotton swabs for cleaning small, tough spots
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Little black book：The little black book reminds me first and foremost Mao’s little red book, which is a pocket book of a collection of teachings of The Great Helmsman. That book was thus named because it had covers in bright red.
Reader question: Please explain &black book& in this sentence: Don&t worry. He won&t be keeping a little black book on you. My comments: That means he holds no grudges. The little black book reminds me first and foremost Mao&s little red book, which is a pocket book of a collection of teachings of The Great Helmsman. That book was thus named because it had covers in bright red. Back in the day, being red meant a lot. But we&re not going to go over Mao&s works here. Both the man and his books have had their day, let&s put it that day. Here, we&re merely briefly touching upon judging a book by its cover & and in the case of red, yellow, white and blue books, apparently you can judge them by their cover without risking making grave mistakes. The yellow book, of course, is the thick telephone directory which lists people&s phone numbers. So-called because these books are yellow in cover. The white book, on the other hand, refers to an official document on a particular subject, which is also known as the white paper. A government white paper on pollution control, for example, seeks to find solutions to cleaning up the environment. The blue book is a list of government officials in Britain. In America, the blue book is a list of names of socially prominent people in general. For students, a blue book is a blank notebook, with, yes, blue covers &in which to write answers to examination questions&, according to The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. In some circumstances, a blue book may also refer to a book of pornography. How has the blue book managed to mean all of these things, I have little idea. Tradition, culture, customs, no doubt. Plus, time and evolution. Anyways, let&s get back to the little black book. Here, &black& is figurative rather than literal. Black books are bad-deeds books, small notebooks people sometimes keep in which to write about all the bad things others have done against them, or others. Like I said, these books are not black in cover, but are instead black (dark, sinister) in content. In other words, it won&t make enjoyable reading except, perhaps, to the writers themselves, who keep such records so that, perhaps, one day, they can get back at all the people who, they think, have done some terrible things to them. This sounded serious, doesn&t it? Ease up. Not all black books are blacklists of people with crimes fit for execution with a bullet on the back of the head. One of my teachers, for example, frankly told me that he kept a black book on me and my fellow students back when I was in college. Fortunately, he listed things no more sinister than, say, the occasions where a certain student made a noise at a meeting or in class. In short, the little black book is a diary, a record of things you perhaps don&t want other people to know about. It&s a book of secrets, including, sometimes, dark secrets. Alright, here are media examples: 1. WHEREAS President Yoweri Museveni and others have always complained about corruption in the judiciary, the Inspector General of Government (IGG) Faith Mwondha on Thursday went a step further by revealing that she knows the corrupt judges. If indeed the IGG has investigated and compiled a list of corrupt judges, this is commendable. An independent judiciary is an essential part of democracy and development. Corruption in the judiciary undermines the rule of law and the right to justice. It denies justice to the poor while rewarding wealthy offenders. In essence, it undermines democracy and development. The IGG, who is charged with fighting corruption in the country, is therefore right to intervene if some judges have questionable integrity. However, she should go all the way to name and take action against the corrupt judges. It is not enough to simply keep a black book of corrupt judges. That would be like a watchdog witnessing a robbery without biting. We should not stop at making blank statements which dent the image of even those who have never taken a bribe. The Inspector of Courts and the Judicial Service Commission should work hand in hand with the IGG to weed out the corrupt and salvage the image of the institution. - IGG, name the corrupt judges, NewVision.co.ug, January 17, 2009. 2. The people behind the memoir, including Mr. Bowers&s agent, David Kuhn, and Morgan Entrekin, the publisher of Grove/Atlantic, insist that &Full Service& is not a prurient tell-all, but instead provides a window into an erased, forgotten and denied past of Los Angeles. In his pitch to publishers, Mr. Kuhn positioned it as no less than a tale about &the complex and conflicted psychosexual history of America&s soul.& A lot of big publishers didn&t agree, or at least were not willing to risk the bawdy stuff to get to any larger point. (Yes, the book was offered to Knopf.) Mr. Entrekin said he decided to publish &Full Service& partly because &there seemed to be nothing meanspirited about it at all. &You don&t get the sense that this guy is trying to exploit these experiences,& he said. The heirs and estates of some of the people mentioned in the book are bound to feel otherwise. Fans, too. &He needs to brace himself for attacks,& said William J. Mann, the author of celebrity biographies like &Kate: The Woman Who Was Hepburn,& which details what he says was Hepburn&s lesbianism and Tracy&s bisexuality, using Mr. Bowers (identified as Scotty) as one of several sources. &Some of the pushback is going to be homophobia,& Mr. Mann added. &But there will also be people who say he&s making it up to sell books and others who say why can&t you let these people rest in peace.& &Kate& drew all those reactions and more when it came out in 2006. In particular, &Spencer Tracy: A Biography,& written by James Curtis and published in October, dismisses Mr. Mann&s account of Hepburn&s and Tracy&s sexuality, characterizing Mr. Bowers as unreliable. &Bowers is full of glib stories and revelations, all cheerfully unverifiable,& Mr. Curtis writes. Jennifer Grant, the daughter of Cary Grant, declined to comment on Mr. Bowers&s book. But her spokeswoman said Ms. Grant&s book, &Good Stuff: A Reminiscence of My Father, Cary Grant,& published in 2011, acknowledges that she knew him to be very straight and that he was amused by chatter that he was bisexual. The ABC News anchor Cynthia McFadden, an executor of the Hepburn estate, said it was its long-standing practice not to comment about books like &Full Service.& Mr. Entrekin said that the book had been vetted by a libel lawyer. &Based on his comments, we deleted some information,& he said. Lawyers who specialize in celebrity-related matters said neither federal copyright law nor the patchwork of state-based &right of publicity& laws offer recourse to heirs or estates displeased with assertions published in a memoir. &They might be in tears, but there&s nothing they can do about it,& said Alan U. Schwartz, a veteran entertainment lawyer at Greenberg Traurig. A $20 bill, given as a tip, according to Mr. Bowers, bought his services in the beginning. That was 1946, and he was 23. As Mr. Bowers tells it, he stumbled into his profession by accident. Newly discharged from the Marines after fighting in the Pacific during World War II, Mr. Bowers got a job pumping gas at the corner of Van Ness Avenue and Hollywood Boulevard, not far from Paramount Pictures. One day Walter Pidgeon (&Mrs. Miniver&) drove up in a Lincoln two-door coupe, according to the book, and propositioned Mr. Bowers, who accepted. Soon, word got around among Pidgeon&s friends, and Mr. Bowers, from his base at the station, started &arranging similar stuff& for some of Bowers&s more adventurous friends. Many clients were not famous, Mr. Bowers said. Film production was flourishing in the late 1940s, and Los Angeles became a destination for writers, set designers, hairstylists and other &artists with open minds,& as Mr. Bowers put it. It was also a time of the vice squad, which raided gay bars. &The station was a safer hangout,& he said. &Sometimes police would come around, sure. But I think I never got caught partly because I kept everything in my head. There was no little black book.& - Hollywood Fixer Opens His Little Black Book, The New York Times, January 27, 2012
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