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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;User 67, post: 14613, member: 67&quot;]<i><font size="3">how to preserve the contents, and second, how I might save at least the cover of my grandmother&#039;s post card album so I could keep it all together as one piece of family history. </font></i></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; You could take this to a book conservator and/or use the cover in a restoration. You might look for some sort of &#039;guts&#039; to a non-acid book. Look at the conservation/acid free sites for scrap books or albums with the same or smaller dimensions. When you get that book cut the guts out and fit it into the old cover with new acid-free endpapers. This might be a fairly cheap job for a paper conservator, compared to making a whole new book.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; If you are handy with paper crafts you could try building the endpapers and fitting the book into the covers. Building the pages on the inside is the hardest part. But setting the book into the cover is easier. Look for bookbinding tutorials on line and books out there to show you how to fit the book inside of a cover, the process is about the same as making a hard cover book.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><i><font size="3">The black pages inside are crumbling every time I open it and the little corner slits in which to seat the cards are starting to break.</font></i></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Yes the black pages are made of pulp paper, like pulp novels and newspapers and as long as any photos or cards remain in the book, they are being damaged. The first thing, of course, is to remove all the materials you want to preserve.</p><p><br /></p><p>The cut that Pat shows is how the binding (cover) is held to the book. You will notice how this part is also part of the endpaper.</p><p><br /></p><p>The idea of making pockets , or buying acid free pockets to hang in the book pages is better than leaving the cards in the book unchecked, but these pockets are still surrounded by acid paper which will acidify the air that gets into the pockets, and advance the aging of the material. Besides, the pages will continue to crumble and be even worse in 20 years time.</p><p><br /></p><p>I would be tempted to just type up the info written on the original pages and paste it into the book or hand write it in like the original with a note at the beginning of the book on what I did, (transposed the text). You could also keep all the old pages, w/out the cards, in order in an envelope/folder, if you felt the original handwriting was important.</p><p><br /></p><p>.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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