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How do I repair a book that was sitting in front of a heating vent?
I have a couple of books that have been sitting in front of a heating vent for the past few months and now there are waves in the pages. I was wondering if there was anyway to repair those books.
As I printer and book binder I know that we always let paper sit after printing and before binding as once paper goes through the printer, the heat involved takes the moisture out of the paper, leaving it somewhat warped. After about 72 hours, it returns to a flatter state as it absorbs moisture from the air and returns to a more "stable" state. So, it sounds like the heat may have just removed moisture from your pages so the first thing I would recommend is to just leave the books away from any heat, laying flat (not standing upright). Perhaps fan a couple times a day & flip. Then leave alone just to see if they will flatten out on their own (before going on to more dramatic steps).
After perhaps a week, if they are not flattening, I would then try pressing them by putting them under weights (see paragraph below on pressing). Perhaps up to a week. If this doesn't work, there's a long drawn out process of "sponging and pressing" that we normally do at the bindery. I would ONLY do this if all else fails, as the sponging and pressing has some risk involved since you're introducing moisture to the pages. When we get books in that are either damp or that are warped, we go through this process. It takes patience to do it right so if you're a "lets take some shortcuts" type of person, don't do it, just keep them under weights - taking them out and fanning every week or so and they might return to normal.
Here's the sponging & pressing instructions - but read thoroughly and don't skip any steps:
What we do here at the bindery is to grab a ream of clean white copy paper (or run to Staples, Office Max or Office Depot & buy some for a couple bucks). You'll also need a CLEAN new sponge (an old one could introduce bacteria or mold spores into your pages, NOT GOOD). What you're going to do is to get the sponge SLIGHTLY damp. This means, put in clean water and then wring out completely so it's barley damp. You then go through every page, doing a few light swaps on the paper to introduce JUST A LITTLE moisture. You'll not re-dampen the sponge until it feels almost dry - so you can use it through about 20-40 sheets of paper. CAUTION: You do not want the pages to get wet! That could cause problems. As you do this you also interweave the copy paper though the book to pick up any additional moisture. So, flip a page, brush sponge across the page, add a blank sheet of paper, flip a page, sponge, add a blank sheet of paper.... until the warped area is filled up. Once that's done, we put the book in a press for a period of time - usually overnight. The next day we remove the xerox paper and then press another day without it. THE BIGGEST CAUTION THAT I WILL REPEAT AGAIN IS NOT TO GET IT TOO WET OR YOU WILL CAUSE ADDITIONAL PROBLEMS!!!!! Which is why I originally said NOT to do this until you had already tried the first suggestions.
For pressing at home, you could put the book under a stack of other books or if you have weights of some sort (IE: weightlifting) you could put those on top (best to put something hard & flat on the top and bottom of the book also - so you won't get a dent from the weights and so the full page will get equal weight. We have special wooden boards that we use for this). The pressure will help to keep the pages flat while drying and the dry sheets of paper will help to absorb the excess moisture from the pages in the book. If you get it too wet, then after pressing start again with interweaving new dry copy paper until dry each time adding NEW dry sheets of the copy paper and removing the slightly damp ones.
Caution: If the book is really fat, it will be more difficult or tricky as the extra paper will make it much fatter than the spine so you want to be careful in that situation that you don't put too much pressure on the spine area. Fill as much as you can, perhaps doing the worst 1/2 of the book first.
Good luck! I hope just the "wait and let the book return to regular" will work!
Tracy Lamphere
Bindery Manager
Grimm Book Bindery, Inc.
Madison, WI
www.grimmbindery.com
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