Chocolate on book edges
Good afternoon, Does anyone know how to get chocolate smooshed and smeared off the edges of the pages of a book? -- Jessica Holman Library Director Forsyth Township Public Library 184 W Flint St Gwinn, MI 49841 (906) 346-3433
Did you try licking it? From: michlib-l-bounces@mail.mcls.org [mailto:michlib-l-bounces@mail.mcls.org] On Behalf Of Jessica Holman Sent: Friday, January 24, 2014 2:50 PM To: michlib-l@mail.mcls.org Subject: [Michlib-l] Chocolate on book edges Good afternoon, Does anyone know how to get chocolate smooshed and smeared off the edges of the pages of a book? -- Jessica Holman Library Director Forsyth Township Public Library 184 W Flint St Gwinn, MI 49841 (906) 346-3433
I wouldn't advise that, Mike. I tried that once--and it most definitely was not chocolate. Damn dog! Donald E. Worrell, Jr., Director Mount Clemens Public Library 150 Cass Avenue Mount Clemens, MI 48043 586.469.6662 dworrell2@comcast.net "Spero optimus, instruo pro pessimus." ----- Original Message ----- From: Mike Evans <mevans@hastingspubliclibrary.com> To: Jessica Holman <jdholman@uwmalumni.com>, michlib-l@mail.mcls.org Sent: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 20:13:05 -0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [Michlib-l] Chocolate on book edges Did you try licking it? From: michlib-l-bounces@mail.mcls.org [mailto:michlib-l-bounces@mail.mcls.org] On Behalf Of Jessica Holman Sent: Friday, January 24, 2014 2:50 PM To: michlib-l@mail.mcls.org Subject: [Michlib-l] Chocolate on book edges Good afternoon, Does anyone know how to get chocolate smooshed and smeared off the edges of the pages of a book? -- Jessica Holman Library Director Forsyth Township Public Library 184 W Flint St Gwinn, MI 49841 (906) 346-3433
Jessica, The sugar and moisture mixes with the paper and creates a kind of glue and the fat in the chocolate is almost impossible to remove. I would charge the patron for the cost of the book. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jessica Holman" <jdholman@uwmalumni.com> To: michlib-l@mail.mcls.org Sent: Friday, January 24, 2014 2:49:54 PM Subject: [Michlib-l] Chocolate on book edges Good afternoon, Does anyone know how to get chocolate smooshed and smeared off the edges of the pages of a book? -- Jessica Holman Library Director Forsyth Township Public Library 184 W Flint St Gwinn, MI 49841 (906) 346-3433 _______________________________________________ Michlib-l mailing list Michlib-l@lists.mcls.org http://lists.mlcnet.org/mailman/listinfo/michlib-l -- Jaema Berman Director Addison Twp. Public Library 1400 Rochester Rd. Leonard, MI 48367 Phone: 248-628-7180 Fax: 248-628-6109 http://www.addisontwp.michlibrary.org “Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.” Margaret Fuller 1810-1850 Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. ~ Francis Bacon
We have had some success with using the book cleaner that Demco offers. But you have to be careful not to use too much as it will damage the paper. Guess a lot of people eat chocolate while they are reading. :) Patty Patty Braden Library Director Romulus Public Library 11121 Wayne Road Romulus, MI 48174 (734) 942-7589 www.romulus.lib.mi.us ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jaema Berman" <jberman@tln.lib.mi.us> To: "Jessica Holman" <jdholman@uwmalumni.com> Cc: michlib-l@mail.mcls.org Sent: Friday, January 24, 2014 3:25:50 PM Subject: Re: [Michlib-l] Chocolate on book edges Jessica, The sugar and moisture mixes with the paper and creates a kind of glue and the fat in the chocolate is almost impossible to remove. I would charge the patron for the cost of the book. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jessica Holman" <jdholman@uwmalumni.com> To: michlib-l@mail.mcls.org Sent: Friday, January 24, 2014 2:49:54 PM Subject: [Michlib-l] Chocolate on book edges Good afternoon, Does anyone know how to get chocolate smooshed and smeared off the edges of the pages of a book? -- Jessica Holman Library Director Forsyth Township Public Library 184 W Flint St Gwinn, MI 49841 (906) 346-3433 _______________________________________________ Michlib-l mailing list Michlib-l@lists.mcls.org http://lists.mlcnet.org/mailman/listinfo/michlib-l -- Jaema Berman Director Addison Twp. Public Library 1400 Rochester Rd. Leonard, MI 48367 Phone: 248-628-7180 Fax: 248-628-6109 http://www.addisontwp.michlibrary.org “Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.” Margaret Fuller 1810-1850 Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. ~ Francis Bacon _______________________________________________ Michlib-l mailing list Michlib-l@lists.mcls.org http://lists.mlcnet.org/mailman/listinfo/michlib-l
In books on stains they say that chocolate has a lot of wax in it. So they suggest that freezing it & then breaking or chipping it off are your best bet. But I doubt that it will remove the stain saturated into the page itself. It should not be hard trying to find a place with freezing temps to harden the wax. :) Marybeth Wallick On 1/24/2014 2:49 PM, Jessica Holman wrote:
Good afternoon,
Does anyone know how to get chocolate smooshed and smeared off the edges of the pages of a book?
-- Jessica Holman Library Director Forsyth Township Public Library 184 W Flint St Gwinn, MI 49841 (906) 346-3433
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I have not tried this but I have heard that you can file the edges of a book with sand paper (if its just on the very edge of the pages) to "refresh" the look of the book. I would scrape off as much chocolate as possible before you do this though. You might have to charge the patron for it (depending on the amount of damage) If that doesn't work. Good Luck! Janelle On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 2:49 PM, Jessica Holman <jdholman@uwmalumni.com>wrote:
Good afternoon,
Does anyone know how to get chocolate smooshed and smeared off the edges of the pages of a book?
-- Jessica Holman Library Director Forsyth Township Public Library 184 W Flint St Gwinn, MI 49841 (906) 346-3433
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