22 Sep
1998
22 Sep
'98
4:21 a.m.
Jon Healey wrote:
Hi Manney,
I frequently buy books that are discounted or second hand.
These always have annoying old labels on them that are
a pain to remove. And my goal is to save the books cover
at the same time (typically these are the glossy style covers
that are popular for computer books these days).
What I do is remove the majority of the "gunk" either with
my fingernail or carefully with a pocket knife and then
I use something with a sticky backing to remove the
rest. The material with a sticky backing might be the
label I just removed or scotch tape or a new label I've
peeled off of some junk mail. You take that stickey
material and repeatedly (like 50-60 times), stick it
on the gunk and then peel it off again.
I do the same with floppies but if the adhesive has dried to a hard finsih this
won't work until you soften it and then take it off with a fingernail or other
non cutting tool, like a sticker remover.