Waning Moon Publications

Not that you would have this problem with our books (unless you hate the smell of incense), but this is some handy advice for those, like myself, who collect books and sometimes end up with a stinky tome from a smoker’s home. The below tips help for removing cigarette and musty smells from books:

• Take a large ziplock bag and 4 or 5 dryer sheets, depending on the severity of the smell. Place some of the dryer sheets inside the book in various pages, and two outside the book. Insert the book with the dryer sheets into the ziplock bag and seal. Check on the book once a week to see if the smoke smell is gone. I like to change out the dryer sheets each week.
• In lieu of dryer sheets you can add baking soda, cedar chips, or activated charcoal into the ziplock. Best not to let the books touch these materials directly to avoid stains, or getting material in the pages.
• Wrap the book up with wads of newspaper in a plastic bag and leave for a week. Change out the newspaper every few days.
• Stand a book up with pages lightly opened and allow a fan on low to blow into the book. The air circulation does wonders.