Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 12:38:05 -0400 (EDT)
From: dicconf <dicconf at radix.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: REviewer's workshop
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, Keith F. Lynch wrote:

> dicconf <dicconf at radix.net> wrote:
>> One thing: waterproof paint on the bottom cement blocks, if you're
>> going to have this sitting on any floor close to the ground.  The
>> damn things are porous enough to wick dampness up from below, whence
>> it seeps into the boards your books are sitting on.
>
> Depends on the floor.
>
> Cement and pine boards make excellent temporary shelving.  Mine have
> been set up for 26 years.  I may replace them with something more
> permanent in another 26 years.  Or maybe 26 years after that.  Mine is
> a basement apartment, but the floor is never damp, so the books never
> get damp, even though the blocks aren't painted.

A basement apartment that isn't damp?  Now that _does_ sound like fantasy!

>> Oh, and it might not be a good idea to use pine or spruce; the resin
>> could make the bottoms of the books adhere to the shelves.  Fun.
>
> The boards, on the other hand, *are* painted.

Why am i not surprised that Keith takes precautions like this?

-- Dick Eney