Ack! A window was left open and I guess it must have been really humid because now the pages of all my entire D&D library are wavy instead of the nice flat straight they were before. I had an entire Planescape collection (at least the boxed sets should be fine), too. It even affected the room of my apartment where the window wasn't open. Stupid physics!
What? Yeah, they're still readable. No, they shouldn't stain or get moss b... but you know how we guys get!
Does anyone know how to fix this? I'm thinking weighting the books down. I tried googling it and another suggestion was putting some already flat pieces of somewhat thick paper throughout would help make the book pages conform to it. Not sure if that's work, but I might try it.
But I'm at work now and can do nothing! So in the meantime... has anyone else had this problem? What methods have worked? I'm thinking about even ebaying a book press...
Urgh! I'm so angry!
I don't really know if it was because of the window being open or just the recent lack of A/C whatsoever... I'm sure that it's one or the other with the "other" not helping much.
I know the pages were good and straight before, though. There are books I haven't even opened and read yet that have the same effect.
Definitely worth looking into. Thanks!
or, you could move to albuquerque. the humidity is about 12 percent, usually. i do have a swamp cooler, but that doesnt really bring the humidity up too much.
i havent had any damage to any of my dnd stuff. :)
if you move to albuquerque, make sure that you dont bring your f150, or dodge pickup, they will both be stolen.
That one's a bit more expensive, but thanks for the tip!
Ack! A window was left open and I guess it must have been really humid because now the pages of all my entire D&D library are wavy instead of the nice flat straight they were before... ...Does anyone know how to fix this? I'm thinking weighting the books down. I tried googling it and another suggestion was putting some already flat pieces of somewhat thick paper throughout would help make the book pages conform to it. Not sure if that's work, but I might try it.
But I'm at work now and can do nothing! So in the meantime... has anyone else had this problem? What methods have worked? I'm thinking about even ebaying a book press...
I feel your pain, brother. I hate it when that happens. I had a box of 3 books shipped to me by amazon on a wet day and they all warped. I also used to go sailing for about 6 weeks at a time every summer when I was a teenager and would take the 1ed PHB, DMG, and MM along to read over and over and over... anyway, sailing=lots of humidity=page waves to rival the size of those the boat was riding on.
Good news is 20+ years of normal humidity will return them to (essentially) normal appearance. If you aren't willing to wait that long, about 6 months of low humidity and normal bookshelf pressure has returned the newer books to reasonable status. Try the dehumidifier suggested above.
Actual water damage however seems to be irreversible. I remember reading a technique about freezing the books under pressure but have never put it in practice - I could never escape the feeling I'd end up with something worse.
Good luck!
put them on a cookie tray with bricks on top, then put the whole thing in the oven.
No don't do this, I am just kidding.
But, it would be a cool YouTube! "event".
