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2007-08-02

• 20:26 UTC (new) 2007-08-02 Books Preservation . . . . 86.116-240-81.adsl-dyn.isp.belgacom.be – There are numerous [http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext98/nmybk11.txt enemies of books] : from fire to [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autodaf%C3%A9 autodafé]. Another enemy is water or humidity... if your books start to smell moldy. That's not good a sign. A little bit worry about that, I installed a small sensor in one of my bookshelf. The purpose is to monitor humidity and see if the relative humidity level is going to the [http://www.loc.gov/preserv/presfaq.html#3 famous 75% limit]. I'm using an USB-based humidity and temperature sensor made by [http://www.raphnet.net/electronique/usbtenki/index.php Raphaël Assénat]. The software and the hardware design is free software/hardware but you can purchase from him [http://shop.raphnet.net/products/usbtenki/index.php?category= the assembled version] (maybe a good way to help the initiative). You can see on the today's graph that the humidity increased when it was very rainy outside and a window was opened. But nothing critical for the books. I'm just wondering when Ikea will include by default a humidity sensor in each [http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/S89807377 Billy bookshelf] ? Tags: [[tag:archiving]] [[tag:humidity]] [[tag:preservation]] [[tag:books]] [[tag:sensor]] [[geo-point:49.70475, 5.42373|Les Bulles, Chiny]]