Slow fire

A slow fire is a term used in library and information science to describe paper embrittlement resulting from acid decay. The term is taken from the title of Terry Sanders's 1987 film Slow Fires: On the preservation of the human record.[1]

Solutions to this problem include the use of acid-free paper stocks, format shifting brittle books by microfilming, photocopying or digitization, and a variety of deacidification techniques.

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References

  1. ^ Vassot, Chloe (2019-10-17). "The Little-Known 'Slow Fire' That's Destroying All Our Books". Literary Hub. Retrieved 2025-06-03.
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