air purifier for mini library car?
Discussion
I just "inherited" this Volkswagen Type 2 from my dad, and I intend to transform this car to book bus, like this:
Hence here comes the problem of how to preserve these books and keep them clean. I'm thinking about air purifier but those from Philips I'm using now are too small. My friend tells me about this Clair air purifier ( http://go-clair.com/collections/clair-bf2025-air-p...) but it's not on the market so I'm not quite sure.
Any ideas?
Hence here comes the problem of how to preserve these books and keep them clean. I'm thinking about air purifier but those from Philips I'm using now are too small. My friend tells me about this Clair air purifier ( http://go-clair.com/collections/clair-bf2025-air-p...) but it's not on the market so I'm not quite sure.
Any ideas?
Edited by anpanman on Tuesday 16th December 07:12
I'm unsure why you're going as far as an air purifier.
I'm making an assumption it won't be sitting in a garage full of books, but rather driven around, people browsing and borrowing etc.
On the basis the van won't be air tight, will be moving around, doors open and closed lots, people in and out. More so, some of the books while borrowed won't be kept in such pristine conditions either.
If you look at your local lending library, you'll see how little they do, as essentially it's a losing battle. And in all fairness, in normal conditions, books will last for many years (just look at the average books in your house), with frequent use being the biggest thing to shorten the life abruptly, and with book prices as they are, the cost of conditioning the air vs replacing the book in 20 years time should easily fall on the side of replacing the book.
Instead, you might want to just try and avoid too much moisture inside. So ensuring it doesn't leak, and making sure you dry it out as soon as possible if you've had damp visitors on damp days. Use removable mats, to take the brunt of wet shoes and when back home, pop some dehumidifiers and heaters in as best you can.
Of course I may have this all wrong, and your books may be precious 1st editions, or you may indeed be thinking of putting this in some sort of preservation bubble. If not, and you're a local mobile lending library, the above is my view.
Either way, good luck!
I'm making an assumption it won't be sitting in a garage full of books, but rather driven around, people browsing and borrowing etc.
On the basis the van won't be air tight, will be moving around, doors open and closed lots, people in and out. More so, some of the books while borrowed won't be kept in such pristine conditions either.
If you look at your local lending library, you'll see how little they do, as essentially it's a losing battle. And in all fairness, in normal conditions, books will last for many years (just look at the average books in your house), with frequent use being the biggest thing to shorten the life abruptly, and with book prices as they are, the cost of conditioning the air vs replacing the book in 20 years time should easily fall on the side of replacing the book.
Instead, you might want to just try and avoid too much moisture inside. So ensuring it doesn't leak, and making sure you dry it out as soon as possible if you've had damp visitors on damp days. Use removable mats, to take the brunt of wet shoes and when back home, pop some dehumidifiers and heaters in as best you can.
Of course I may have this all wrong, and your books may be precious 1st editions, or you may indeed be thinking of putting this in some sort of preservation bubble. If not, and you're a local mobile lending library, the above is my view.
Either way, good luck!
phil4 said:
I'm unsure why you're going as far as an air purifier.
I'm making an assumption it won't be sitting in a garage full of books, but rather driven around, people browsing and borrowing etc.
On the basis the van won't be air tight, will be moving around, doors open and closed lots, people in and out. More so, some of the books while borrowed won't be kept in such pristine conditions either.
If you look at your local lending library, you'll see how little they do, as essentially it's a losing battle. And in all fairness, in normal conditions, books will last for many years (just look at the average books in your house), with frequent use being the biggest thing to shorten the life abruptly, and with book prices as they are, the cost of conditioning the air vs replacing the book in 20 years time should easily fall on the side of replacing the book.
Instead, you might want to just try and avoid too much moisture inside. So ensuring it doesn't leak, and making sure you dry it out as soon as possible if you've had damp visitors on damp days. Use removable mats, to take the brunt of wet shoes and when back home, pop some dehumidifiers and heaters in as best you can.
Of course I may have this all wrong, and your books may be precious 1st editions, or you may indeed be thinking of putting this in some sort of preservation bubble. If not, and you're a local mobile lending library, the above is my view.
Either way, good luck!
I'm not sure that you want to open local lending library, or just for storage and reading space. But I don't agree that air purifier would be obsolete in this case. Once my neighbor also did a similar stuff, with books and LPs and posters thing but it's very hard to maintain the condition of indoor, because dust piled up after days and if you say books won't be kept in pristine condition I would be very upset as a book lovers. I'm making an assumption it won't be sitting in a garage full of books, but rather driven around, people browsing and borrowing etc.
On the basis the van won't be air tight, will be moving around, doors open and closed lots, people in and out. More so, some of the books while borrowed won't be kept in such pristine conditions either.
If you look at your local lending library, you'll see how little they do, as essentially it's a losing battle. And in all fairness, in normal conditions, books will last for many years (just look at the average books in your house), with frequent use being the biggest thing to shorten the life abruptly, and with book prices as they are, the cost of conditioning the air vs replacing the book in 20 years time should easily fall on the side of replacing the book.
Instead, you might want to just try and avoid too much moisture inside. So ensuring it doesn't leak, and making sure you dry it out as soon as possible if you've had damp visitors on damp days. Use removable mats, to take the brunt of wet shoes and when back home, pop some dehumidifiers and heaters in as best you can.
Of course I may have this all wrong, and your books may be precious 1st editions, or you may indeed be thinking of putting this in some sort of preservation bubble. If not, and you're a local mobile lending library, the above is my view.
Either way, good luck!
Now air purifier is also known for books preservation and the Clair you mentioned has only 4W per hour, which is durable for your bus I guess. Just be careful on damp days as phil said.
anpanman said:
I'm thinking about air purifier but those from Philips I'm using now are too small. My friend tells me about this Clair air purifier ( http://go-clair.com/collections/clair-bf2025-air-p...) but it's not on the market so I'm not quite sure.
Any ideas?
Dust tends to pile up and especially with books its more fine dust which is very difficult to get rid off .The power supply specified on the website is 12 V and 1 A . I think it is small enough that a car can supply. I think you can go ahead with the Clair air purifier Any ideas?
Edited by anpanman on Tuesday 16th December 07:12
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