Excellent Condition
Apr/110
How long a book stay in excellent condition if left in a container at room temperature and never used?
Here's a question on the preservation of materials, etc.. How long a stay in perfect book if it were placed in a room legal residence and not touched? How long would it take for the materials lose their color, or writing to fade, or the pound to lose its condition? 50? 100 years? 200? Someone please try to give me an accurate estimate. Also how long DVDs last if not used? That data on disk fade over time?
The length of time a book last depends very much on what kind of paper was used, there are many books that are hundreds of years in collections and museums and paper is always white and not fragile (except at the edges even when the air and the sun reaches it). I have a friend who collects old books and manuscripts and it is amazing how long-term, flexible, white and new consultant some of these old papers is! If the acid paper was used at low prices (as which is used in newspapers, cheap romance novels, etc.), it turns yellow in a few years and eventually breaking. Not sure CD's. DVD's, it seems most of these formats for storing data, data that winds up lasting more than the popularity of the method of storage!