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Nerdy Fish7/29/2011 6:12:35 am PDT

re: #166 Obdicut

A lot of newer paper is actually much worse than older, and decays faster, because it’s got a lot more acid resident in the paper.

There’s special acid-free paper that’s used for documents that are expecting to be preserved.

You know, you’d expect technology to improve over the thousands of years we’ve been putting things in writing.