Tips on preservation of  books stored in wooden open shelf?
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Keep your books stored upright (not leaning), dry, cool (normal room temperature or cooler), and dust-free.  For more preservation tips see the Library of Congress' preservation faq at http://www.loc.gov/preserv/presfaq.html
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Best method if practical is to freeze it.\nIf not sealed within a steralized container.
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Theres a fantastic second hand book shop in Montague St, Brooklyn that buys books - be warned tho' - it'd be hard to go in without buying more!!
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What about make him a closed box type of thing with all good memories and photos of yous together doing stuff yous love and had fun doing? Thats unique and not expensive.  Once you have put the photos on, use varnish to keep them there always.
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You can try selling them on half.com or Amazon Marketplace.  I sell mine in half.com all the time.  You could also try donating them to a used bookstore in town that is not affliated with a college, or to a vocational college or high school.  Also, try the library.  Some libraries take in used books to sell or to loan out as part of their collection.
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at and major bookstore...barnes and noble, boarders, maybe a library. i personally woud try amazon.com for a cheap find :)
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You can use winzip and password protect the archive.  WinZip 9.0 supports 128- and 256-bit key AES encryption [see ref].\n\nThen burn the archive onto CDR
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Any fluid that will keep the air out but which won't corrode the specimen.\n\nStrong alcohol such as vodka is good or perhaps something like methylated spirits or while spirit. Avoid household bleach or vinegar as they're likely to be too corrosive.\n\nAs spiders have a hard external skeleton, it is also possible to preserve them by drying them out... you often see this in butterfly collections. Just use a long stainless steel pin and pin the body of the spider to a small piece of wood or thick cardboard. Place the specimen in somewhere warm, dark and dry for a couple of weeks. Don't cover it in anything that will keep moisture in or it will rot. The specimen will then be perfectly preserved (but very brittle - so take care!)
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Preservation and education.
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refrigerated storage see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Drew#Advanced_study\n\nGood Luck!!!
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Jimbo is the first person with the correct answer.\n\nThe first book you put on the shelf can be selected from the 6 books available and can be placed on the shelf either upright or upside down.  There are 12 possibilities for the first book (6 books multipled by two ways round).\n\nWith one book on the shelf you now have 5 books remaining from which you select one and place it either upright or upside down on the shelf.  But now there are only 10 possibilities (5 x 2).\n\nWith 4 books remaining there are 8 possibilities (4 x 2).\nWith 3 books remaining there are 6 possibilities (3 x 2).\nWith 2 books remaining there are 4 possibilities (2 x 2).\nWith 1 book remaining there are 2 possibilities (1 x 2).\n\nTo calculate the total number of possible ways to arrange the books you need to multiply together all the individual possibilities... 12 x 10 x 8 x 6 x 4 x 2... which equals 46,080.
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put them in your basement or something---no special prep required...where do you think stores display them?  In the open.
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I don't think anyone has truly answered your question yet. You're question, as best as I can tell, deals with compression. Now, perhaps you might be able to see it better with a big foam brick. The book pushes down on the foam, until it won't compress anymore and then the book stops sinking. Well, the table is technically the same way, but its already super packed. The molecules of the table, be they the atoms of wood, or glass, or whatever your table is made of, are a network of atoms, all interlocked in a solid form by opposing charges. By placing the book on top, you cause the atoms to become closer, which in turn increases the repulsion of the atoms. Gravity pulls down, Electric (Magnetic) Resistance pushes back.
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In a dark cool area, I store mine in the closet which is in the inner most corner of my house, it's pretty cool in there.\nJust keep it out of extreme temperature swings and light.
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If you can find a "Half Price Books" store they will tell you. Try their web site and use e-mail if you don't have a recycled books store near you. Also, go to Barnes and Noble web site and see if they are listed in the "out of print sections."
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Our library has the State adoptive materials for teachers. Ask a librarian. These seem to be very helpful. I even have some of last years books that were in the discard shelves.
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First, find out how many ways you can arrange 20 different books with exactly two books on each shelf.  Then, find how many ways you can arrange the remaining 10 books on the 5 shelves.  Multiply these two answers together to find the total number of arrangements.  \n\nFor the first, consider each spot on each shelf as a different position.  How many choices are there for the left-most spot on the top shelf?  How many choices for the second spot on the top shelf?  Continue for each shelf and multiply them together - you should get 20!/10!\n\nFor the second, you have 10 books and 5 shelves where each book can go.  A shelf can have no books at all or it might have all 10 books.  If you start at the top shelf, they can either place a book or move to the next shelf.  You have 10 books and will move to the next shelf a total of 4 times.  Pretend you are putting the books in a row and using a marker to indicate when you move to the next shelf - you have 14 spots to place either a book or a marker and the markers all look alike.  (This is similar to arranging the letters AAAABCDEFGHIJK)  The number of ways you can arrange them is 14! / 4!\n\nThus, the total number of ways to arrange the books is 20!14! / 10!4!