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I recently purchased a John Deere diesel garden tractor and a service manual came with it. About an inch thick so lots of pages. 95 % of the pages are in good shape but the remaining at the end of the manual look like they got wet. At the very least damp from being in a outdoor shed or worse may have actually gotten wet. So today I took a pair of scissors and trimmed off as much of the ruined pages and that went OK. I did lose some text but not much. I currently have the manual in our sunroom which is air conditioned. If I leave it out there for a week or two will the AC pull the dampness out of the pages ? Or should I set it in the sun ? Put in a ziploc bag with rice ? This manual is aprox. 125.00 + so I want to save it. I was also thinking about taking the pages out of the book/spine and placing each page in a plastic sleeve then in a 3 ring binder. So any paper page saving experts out there ?