{"id":2475,"date":"2011-05-25T16:35:05","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T16:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/preservation\/?p=2475"},"modified":"2012-02-16T14:12:59","modified_gmt":"2012-02-16T14:12:59","slug":"flattening-a-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/2011\/05\/25\/flattening-a-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Flattening A Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, May 25, 2011<\/p>\n<p>Salvaging damaged books can be very time consuming, especially if they don&#8217;t dry flat. Today Caitlin Moore demonstrated how to flatten a book. First you lightly mist a page, using a mister that sprays a very fine mist, interleave with a blank piece of paper every few pages, put a board over the book, and put a weight on the board. One must make sure that the board is slightly larger than the book.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2011\/05\/IMG_3159_blog.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2011\/05\/IMG_3159_blog.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2479\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2011\/05\/IMG_3154_blog.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2011\/05\/IMG_3154_blog.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"312\" height=\"274\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2011\/05\/IMG_3154_blog.jpg 312w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2011\/05\/IMG_3154_blog-300x263.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 312px) 100vw, 312px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2011\/05\/IMG_3160_blog.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2011\/05\/IMG_3160_blog.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"361\" height=\"190\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2477\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2011\/05\/IMG_3160_blog.jpg 361w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2011\/05\/IMG_3160_blog-300x157.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 361px) 100vw, 361px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2011\/05\/IMG_3162_blog.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2011\/05\/IMG_3162_blog.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"356\" height=\"197\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2011\/05\/IMG_3162_blog.jpg 356w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2011\/05\/IMG_3162_blog-300x166.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 356px) 100vw, 356px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, May 25, 2011 Salvaging damaged books can be very time consuming, especially if they don&#8217;t dry flat. Today Caitlin Moore demonstrated how to flatten a book. First you lightly mist a page, using a mister that sprays a very fine mist, interleave with a blank piece of paper every few pages, put a board<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/2011\/05\/25\/flattening-a-book\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Flattening A Book&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":158,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8,23,12],"tags":[],"syndication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2475"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2494,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475\/revisions\/2494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2475"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=2475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}