Comment on This bookstore wraps all books in plastic.

jaschen306@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• tal@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Most commercial establishments in the US are air-conditioned. Taiwan has — as you point out — a pretty warm, humid climate. Are Taiwanese bookstores not not typically air-conditioned? I’d think that they’d be a prime candidate.

  I was reading about public library humidity and temperature control a month or two back, and it sounded like it was also pretty much the norm to air condition those, for the preservation reasons that you mention.

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  • colourlessidea@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Even if they are air conditioned it’s quite likely that the air conditioning does not run 24/7

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    • BlackVenom@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Conditional air conditioning as it were. Novel.

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      • stardreamer@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        A lot of cultures also don’t run AC as cold as the US does.

        Growing up, the AC was consistently set to 28C (83F)

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• MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Dehumidifier in the store…

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  • jaschen306@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    You don’t understand how much humidity is on tropical islands. When I open a bag of chips, the time it gets stale is measured in minutes, not days.

    Even with a humidifier on 24/7, you can never drop the humidity to a point that books don’t start rotting.

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    • CluckN@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Cover the books in oil so it repels water?

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      • Cort@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        But what if we refined that oil into plastic and used that to cover the books instead? That way people wouldn’t get oily fingers from reading.

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    • ohulancutash@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Sounds like people shouldnt bother living in such shitholes.

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      • daychilde@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Sometimes the ignorance that people show is astounding.

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      • Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        You really want to throw stones from the UK?

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      • jaschen306@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Ranking 4th safest country in the world. USA ranks 89th. Not sure what you mean by “shithole”.

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