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Remember a couple weeks ago when I mused that we might stack two folding tables <\/a>on top of each other to dry twice the amount of books in the same footprint? I can report that it works really well.<\/p>\n

\"Photo<\/a>We found some additional damp books\u00a0 from the disaster we had a couple weeks ago<\/a>. Since the tables were still set up I decided to test my hypothesis. It worked really well. As you can see below I made sure there were plenty of fans to circulate the air around the top layer. The books are drying nicely and we can still move around this small space with relative ease.<\/p>\n

\"Photo<\/a>That said, I’m going to keep quiet the next time I mutter, “I wonder if this would work in the next disaster?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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