To: ShadowAce
Ms Ceeney said: "If you put paper on shelves, it's pretty certain it is going to be there in a hundred years.
This is something the proprietor of The House of the Book in San Juan, Puerto Rico talked to us about almost 30 years ago while showing us some >500 year old books whose pages were still clear and bright.
61 posted on
07/05/2007 12:57:00 PM PDT by
aruanan
To: aruanan
62 posted on
07/05/2007 1:08:15 PM PDT by
Publius6961
(MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
To: aruanan
This is something the proprietor of The House of the Book in San Juan, Puerto Rico talked to us about almost 30 years ago while showing us some >500 year old books whose pages were still clear and bright.I believe the longevity of written documents is a function of the paper construction and the chemical makeup of the ink. I remember hearing that certain documents (not sure of the time period) were very much in danger due to acidic degradation.
To: aruanan
... while showing us some >500 year old books whose pages were still clear and bright. Agree... Suppose our country was founded today -- and documents like the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were composed in MS Word, and saved on a CD or DVD.
Would people still be able to read them after as many years have passed from this own country's founding?
65 posted on
07/05/2007 1:24:32 PM PDT by
ken in texas
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