

I just started collecting mangas I wonder how am I going to prevent them from
having yellow pages. Currently, I store them in a glass shelf without a cover.

Are there any other ways?


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Preventing manga books from having yellow pages


Although I have no manga, I do have a large comic book collection. I protect
them with "comic book bags" (or sleeves) and anti-acidic cardboard. They are
stored in special boxes designed for comic books. These supplies are also
available and fitted for manga. You can store 1 or 2 books per bag. If two,
you place them back to back, with an anti-acidic card in-between.

There are several vendors. The one I use is [Bags
Unlimited](http://www.bagsunlimited.com/), which has been around since 1976.
They have a huge number of "archival supplies" for comics, books, CDs,
magazines, you name it.

I just read @Maroon's comment. Once yellowed and brittle, you can't do much
about it. But the purpose of the anti-acidic paper is to minimize damage to
the books in the first place by helping neutralize the acids in the paper
stock of the books.


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Yellow pages is a symptom of sun damage, more or less what happens when you
leave something exposed to the sun for prolonged periods of time. A good
example of this is if you ever go to a comic shop and they have posters in the
window that are really faded, it's the minor amounts of radiation from the sun
more or less bleaching those colors away.

A good way to combat and prevent this is to keep them in a bookshelf and keep
them organized, and if there are windows in the room just don't leave the
blinds open all day. It wont 100% prevent this issue, as @Maroon pointed out
certain papers will just do this overtime. However speaking from my experience
doing this is an easy and effective way to help prevent this.


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