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Donna Marie
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Posted: Jan 31 2012 at 1:28pm | IP Logged Quote Donna Marie
I found some old books in a box in the attic They shouldn't have been up there, but there they are. They have been up there for at least a year and of course it gets hot and a bit damp at times up there.

I am in the process of getting rid of any cardboard in the attic because I have seen silverfish.     

Now..my questions:

1..If books have been up there a long while and I know I have seen silverfish up there, how do I know if a book has them or not?

2..Do I save books that have been brought up there, or would it be better to start over. I just found like 4 boxes of books. About 50% of them I would really like to keep. Some show cover warping from being stacked and heated...but nothing too severe.

3..If I have seen silverfish, there are bound to be more. How do I get rid of them?

4..Oh, yeah, I also found a box of binders...save or dump?

The ever ongoing saga of my house decluttering adventures...

Advice??
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Posted: Jan 31 2012 at 9:08pm | IP Logged Quote Erin
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1. Open and they run out.

2. I would keep if worthwhile and readable. Warping is still readable most of the time.

3.Not too sure but I'm sure there must be something

4. Are you going to use them? Keep if so. I use mine all the time.

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Posted: Jan 31 2012 at 11:21pm | IP Logged Quote guitarnan
What Erin said.

If you do see a silverfish, catch it in a tissue and flush it. Their egg cases need to be eliminated, and at a certain stage the egg case is still inside the body of the mother silverfish. Flushing is more "final" than tossing a tissue into the trash bin.

If you have a shelf full of books you haven't read in a while, it can't hurt to rearrange the shelf to disturb any potential silverfish. They are elusive; they hide under piles of clothes/fabric, etc. Moving things around will spook them out.

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Thirding Erin's answers!

Hooray for finding books you forgot you had!

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Posted: Feb 01 2012 at 8:19am | IP Logged Quote JennGM
Take a hard look and cull what you really, really want to keep. If they "nice to have", put in another pile.

I was going to suggest baking the books, or freezing them to make sure you have no silverfish living in the books. That would be a bit time consuming, so that's why I suggested culling your boxes.

here are some suggestions.

And I also read to put Boric Acid for silverfish. You could probably do that in the attic without worrying about the kids.

And, like Nancy said, you need to check all your books and do some preventative maintenance.

But would I keep them? Yes, some of them. I had some boxes in my parents' attic which little mice visited and some weather affected them. I was brutally honest with myself about which ones to keep, cleaned up the remaining really well. I know I can never sell the books with tiny teeth marks, but the ones that remained were irreplaceable. It's only a few, though.

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