>>11812294>Otherwise my stinky comics would still be stinky.I bet they still stink, because that stink comes off from you and you're used to your stank.
I used to work in a university library and i was trained to archive shit, since they were moving shit from the old library to the new one.
I coudl go into the details of how shit works, but so I'll be brief: smells come from PHYSICAL shit laying ontop of an object. Your evaporated sweat, your shit particles, your skin flakes, dirt, bug shit, is all laying on your books and boxes that needs to be physically removed.
Like i said, you can get rid of a LITTLE of the smell, by circulating air, which helps dry out the moisture that undoubtedly has saturated your paper books and cardboard boxes. This helps way more and faster than if just sticking shit into a box with no air to help dry your shit out.
The backing soda helps remove moisture, but it would be exponentially quicker if you had a small fan to move air around in the box.
Just leaving out in the sun outside would do the same shit in just a few hours. It'd actually work better to, since UV light will also kill any bacteria and molds.
So by drying out your books/boxes, you're still leaving all the physical smells on your papers, but now there's next to no humidity to carry the stink lines to your nose.
Also, buffered inserts were used since at least the 80s. It's ancient technology, but was little used due to the price (20¢ isn't much until you have 100-1000 books) until the comic book boom happened in 80s and enough people using it brought costs down to the point they started advertising that shit in the early wizard mags (1990?).
