How to Dry Partially Wet Books

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Once your book has dried a little bit, it will have gone from saturated to partially wet and partially wet is defined by still having wet pages but at least the pages can be somewhat separated, you might not be able to separate every single page yet, but you don't have the large clump of pages in the center. For this, instead of having it up on its end we are going to have it down flat for drying and how this is going to differ from the saturated book is we are going to start putting some absorbent material in between the pages of the book. You want to have the pages, approximately every twenty pages or so, so you want to have some paper towel or other absorbent material. If you have access to a book conservator then they would also have materials that you could use instead of paper towels but certainly paper towels are going to work just fine, particularly if you only have a few books that you are drying. So you want to be careful while you are putting your paper towel between the pages, you want to make sure that your are not tearing any of the pages, or separating the pages that don't want to be separated. So once you have every twenty or so pages with paper towels in between them then you are just going to let it sit on its side and dry for awhile. You do have to worry about distortions from it sitting like this, so once again you want to keep an eye on it and check up on a regular basis.

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