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I'm using silica gel to deal with booklice
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I'm using silica gel to deal with booklice

I found booklice on some of my books. I don't have a freezer, so I can't freeze my books to kill them, and I'd really like to avoid throwing my books away. So, I came up with a possible solution. I placed the books with booklice and those adjacent to them in hermetic zipper plastic bags, and added 1 g sillica gel packets to reduce humidity. Apparently, I've read that silica gel eventually reaches its peak capability and ends up releasing the moisture it has collected. How often should I replace the packets to avoid this? And how long should I keep with this "treatment" to kill all the booklice?

u/jorflage — 4 days ago
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Is there some other way to eliminate the bugs that damage books instead of freezing?

I recently started reading a book that I bought some months ago and I'm finding a lot of those little bugs (whatever they are called) that eat the paper of books. I don't know how they arrived to that particular copy, if they were there when I bought it, or maybe they came from my university library, since I used my bookmark on one of their books. I can't use a freezer right now. Does anyone know an alternative method to kill them? Please let me know, I'm not even sure this is the right subreddit to ask this question, but I'm quite desperate.

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u/jorflage — 5 days ago
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Is there some other way to eliminate the bugs that damage books instead of freezing?

I recently started reading a book that I bought some months ago and I'm finding a lot of those little bugs (whatever they are called) that eat the paper of books. I don't know how they arrived to that particular copy, if they were there when I bought it, or maybe they came from my university library, since I used my bookmark on one of their books. I can't use a freezer right now. Does anyone know an alternative method to kill them? Please let me know, I'm not even sure this is the right subreddit to ask this question, but I'm quite desperate.

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u/jorflage — 5 days ago