In our world, there are books in different formats: printed editions, audio books, tactile books, Braille editions. Today we're going to talk about conventional print media.
Book lovers, families who love to develop, learn new and useful information, collect their library for the future generation. What do you need to know about book care? How and where to store? How to care and repair? What is bookcrossing and street library? We will tell you in detail on our resource.
What are books afraid of?
To keep books in good condition, you need to know the factors that can lead to damage to printed publications. They can affect individually or in combination. Let's consider them in more detail.
Dust.
People who live in cities see dust in their apartments everywhere, including on books. It is necessary to wipe the dust as it accumulates, if possible, then carry out wet cleaning every 2-3 days or remove dust with a vacuum cleaner.
Covers protect books from dust
You can protect books from dust, for this you need to store them in shelves with glass partitions or doors, as well as dress books in a cover.
The sun.
Some people put books on balcony shelves or shelves that are next to the window space. The sun's rays come through the window and in the summer it can have a detrimental effect on your favorite books. The cover and the pages themselves may fade and therefore become lighter.
Humidity.
It is necessary to monitor the humidity and air temperature in the apartment. Usually it is about 19-23 degrees and humidity up to 63%. Most often this is the case in apartments, but just in case, you can purchase a home weather station.
Home weather station allows you to control the level of humidity
Do not install bookshelves next to central heating radiators. If the paper dries, then you need to buy a humidifier.
You see fungus or mold - this is a bad sign and indicates that the books are damp. The reason is the cold season outside, and the batteries are not heated yet. You can eliminate the cause with the help of special bags that absorb moisture or turn on a radiator that will heat the air in the room.
There is a lot of humidity in the bathroom, so this place is not suitable for storage.
If the paper dries, get a humidifier
tightness.
There should be a small gap between the books through which air will flow. No need to put books tightly to each other. If the books are stacked tightly, then it will be difficult to get the right book, moreover, you can ruin its binding, scratch or even tear it.
Don't put books close to each other
Animals.
Animals can cause great damage to books. Parrots, puppies can gnaw covers, there are pages.
If you have animals in your house, make sure that the books are located on a high shelf behind glass.
If there are animals at home, place the bookshelves as high as possible
How to take care of books?
Before you are going to read, you need to wash your hands from dust and dirt if you came from the street, were engaged in creativity or drawing.
Read carefully.
From childhood, you need to tell and show children how to handle books. You can’t sharply open it, bend it in the opposite direction, slobber your fingers, eat while reading, take literature with dirty hands. If a person smokes and then picks up a book, the pages can absorb the smell for a long time.
Show children how to handle books
Do not make notes on the pages with a pen. If it is very necessary to mark a word, a phrase, then make an inscription with a pencil, which can then be erased with an eraser.
Bookmarks.
Many people have a habit of folding pages in book editions so as not to forget the place where they left off or when something important is on the page.
The best way to break this habit is to bookmark the book. There are different types of bookmarks for a book on sale, their cost is small, it ranges from 100 rubles and more. You can do it yourself or just use a small calendar for this purpose.
You can make a bookmark for a book with your own hands
You can put the cover on the book, and stick a satin ribbon on the back of the cover with double-sided tape and that's it, the bookmark is ready!
Cover.
The best option to save a book for a long time is to put a cover on it. On sale are transparent, colored, you can make a cover for a book with your own hands, for example, from the remnants of wallpaper or an oilcloth tablecloth for the table.
Make book covers
Book repair.
Sometimes there are situations when the pages of the book are removed, peeled off, the printed text moves away from the cover or it is completely absent, then the book needs to be repaired.
We glue the pages.
Transparent glue "Moment" or a small adhesive tape will always come to the rescue in this situation.
Glue.
We open the publication at the place where it is necessary to glue the page. Open a tube of glue, squeeze a little onto the cardboard base. We dip a thin brush into the glue and draw it in places of rupture on both sides. Close the book and wait for the glue to dry.
On top, you can put a few books or a heavy object, for better adhesion of glue and paper.
Scotch.
We unwind the adhesive tape, apply it to the place of the gap. We cut off the excess.
If the book has notes made with a pencil, then we take an eraser and erase them.
Repair of torn pages.
In this case, tape helps. We measure a small distance, glue it on one side of the sheet, then turn it over and bend the remaining edge. We cut off the excess.
Repair torn pages with tape
No cover.
If the book does not have a cover, then we make it ourselves. We take a cardboard base, bend it and cut it out in the shape of a book. On the computer, we type the text title of the book, the author and print or write by hand. Glue the name onto the cardboard base. In the middle we apply glue and glue the pages with the text. We wrap the cover in a protective film.
Making a hard cover for a book
There are rare collector's editions, the book is stitched in a special way. In this case, it is better to contact specialists - restorers.
If the pages are wet.
The book fell into a puddle or snow. The pages are wet and slightly curled. We take an ordinary sheet of A 4 paper or a newspaper, put it on a wet page and iron it with an iron.
If the book has an odor.
Some stores sell and light incense sticks. There are people who smoke. The book absorbs odors and in order to get rid of them you need to put it on the balcony for a while and open the windows.
Scented sachets will get rid of unpleasant odors in books
Where to store books?
There is no universal place for storing publications. Some people live in a country house, others in an apartment. Some apartments are large, while others are small. Consider the most common places for book storage.
- bookshelves;
For small apartments, it is best to store books on shelves and close the shelves with glass partitions. Shelves can be made with your own hands from a wooden base or you can buy finished products.
Shelves can be made above a computer or desktop, in the hallway, in the kitchen, in the living room. You can buy wide shelves for spices and use them in a non-traditional way.
Storing books on bookshelves
If the tree does not fit into the style of the interior, then the shelves can be painted with paint. This should be done in several layers, because the tree absorbs paint a little. Then fix with a colorless varnish for painted products.
- baskets;
Metal, wicker, plastic baskets can also be used for storage.
Book basket
- closet;
If space permits, you can put a closet and put all the literary publications in it.
If space permits, install a bookcase
- rack;
Most often, the rack is used in stores, but it can also be used for a country house or apartment.
bookcase
In some apartments, the rack serves to separate zones in the room.
- stairs;
Owners of two-story apartments and country houses can store books in the niche of the stairs.
Using a ladder niche to store books
- bed;
Sofa bed, chair bed or standard bed - there is usually an area for storing linen inside, but if the place is empty, then it can be used to store books. If you can’t sleep at night, then take a book and read.
Shelf for books under the bed
– textile – organizers;
Another option is a textile organizer. It is not designed for a large number of books, but it will do for a few. It can be placed in the living room or bedroom. After reading books, it can be folded and put away.
Textile organizer for books
- wooden boxes;
Old or no longer needed wooden boxes can be painted and used to store books. They can be placed on the floor or nailed to the wall.
Boxes can be painted with bright paint. For a picture for the interior, you can use a napkin and make boxes using decoupage technique. Another option is to buy outlines and decorate them with spot painting.
Wooden book storage box
- at work;
You can store books in the workplace. It often happens that a hint, an illustrative example or a definition is required.
Shelves for books above the work table
Also, books can be stored: in a table, on a glassed-in balcony, in a bedside table or ottoman, in a crib - attic, or store publications in a niche under the bed. An interesting and practical option is a chair with shelves for books.
Armchairs with book shelves
How to store books?
Most often, books are placed vertically, if there is a distance, then the remaining books are placed horizontally on top.
Literature can be divided into types, genres. There are publications on flower care, gardening, garden topics - these publications can be taken to the dacha.
Books sorted by color
In the office, at the workplace or at the computer, books related to the profession or for development. For example, schoolchildren and students keep textbooks on their desks.
In the kitchen, you can store publications with culinary recipes, books on carving and decorating dishes, the tea ceremony, as well as table setting.
Shelves for cookbooks in the kitchen
Carving is an art in which figures and flowers are beautifully cut out of vegetables and fruits.
We wipe the books with a slightly damp cloth (from dust), put on the cover and put it on the shelf.
If it is possible to collect all the books in a separate room, then you can put them in alphabetical order, as they do in the library, or divide them by subject. On one shelf there are books on a foreign language, on the other - fiction, poetry, etc.
What to do with old books?
If the children grew up and stopped going to school, graduated from the institute, then there were children's books and textbooks from institute times.Women who became mothers read publications on the topic of pregnancy, childbirth, and upbringing. Books are no longer needed, what to do with such publications? We offer the following options:
- library;
There are libraries in every city. Sometimes even several. Call and ask if the libraries accept books.
Old books can be donated to the library
Libraries accept books free of charge.
– special shops;
There are specialty shops, a pawnshop or thrift shops. You can bring books and get money for them or get another one.
In such stores, the amount for books is small, from 20 rubles per book. Further, the store puts its markup and earns by paying less for a book edition than it costs.
You can bring books to thrift stores and get cash for them.
In some online stores, you can see ads "bring a book in good condition and get a new one." There are special shelves where you can take another book instead of your book.
The pawnshop accepts rare and collectible editions.
- free bulletin boards;
You can give away or sell books for a small amount. For this, there are special free classifieds boards in the city; they are made of wood and are located at the entrance or in free classifieds sites on the Internet.
For mobile devices, there are special applications that facilitate the placement of ads and sales.
– specialized forums and websites;
Mothers often communicate at children's and family forums, plant lovers at flower forums.
Now there are groups by school number, district, city and you can find them. If there are none, then you can create your own. Create groups in social networks for free.
- books in the parks;
In many park areas you can see a small closet with books and magazines. If you have unnecessary books in your house, then take them to the park.
Bookcase in the park
- bookcrossing.
back to index ↑What is bookcrossing?
A person has read a book, then leaves it in a public place and points it out on a special resource. Another person sees this information and comes to that place and takes the book and then does the same.
Literally translated, this is the movement of books, free books, a kind of book club.
It was originally distributed in Italy and then went around the world. At the end of 2014, Germany was the most active country in this movement.
Special box for book exchange
Some writers, publications or shops may advertise and promote themselves in this way.
You can attach a sheet with the date and last name, and then you will see how many people have already read this publication.
Sometimes bookcrossing can be interrupted, because an ordinary person who does not participate in this marathon, but simply loves to read, can take a book for himself.
back to index ↑Street library.
Special racks are gaining great popularity, where there are books and magazines for reading. They can stand in parks, in forest-park areas, in areas near a lake or in an ordinary yard.
If your region, city does not yet have a special rack, then you can make it yourself and give rise to a free library!
You can organize a street library yourself
In the yard, you can organize a special rack and store children's coloring books, fairy tales and literature for children there. Young children will have a desire to learn the letters in order to find out what is written in the book. In the open air, children will be more interested in reading and learning poetry.
Example of a street library
Read useful and interesting books, because a person who reads knows more, writes correctly, can express his thoughts orally or on paper.
Novels, fairy tales, poems, biographies of great people, travel books, about cities, countries, oceans, animals - there are so many interesting things in the world!
Take care of the books, add them to the interior and then they will go to the future generation in good condition!
In the comments, tell us how you take care of books if there are free libraries in your city?
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