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Why does nobody mention how bad the yellowing gets?
Bought this 1970s paperback about UFO sightings at a Goodwill in Denver for $2 because the cover had a sweet flying saucer on it. Some guy on here told me to use acid-free bags for storage, but I figured it was overkill. Left it on my nightstand by a window for 3 weeks and now the whole spine is this gross brownish yellow, looks like a different book. Anyone else learn this lesson the hard way or am I just an idiot?
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oscar3902mo ago
You call that yellowing? That's what people in the hobby call "vintage patina" and it adds character. A book that sat on a shelf for 50 years in a dusty basement deserved to finally see some sunlight, right? The real lesson here is that you got a perfectly readable copy for two bucks and now you're crying about some color change that makes it look authentic. If you wanted museum-grade preservation you should've spent fifty bucks on a sealed copy, not a beat-up Goodwill find. This obsession with keeping everything pristine is why half the collected paperbacks out there look like they're stored in a sterile lab instead of actually being enjoyed.
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