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Hungary’s oldest library is fighting to save 100,000 books from a beetle infestation

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Books are kept in hermetically sealed plastic sacks for disinfection, at the Pannonhalma Archabbey

Restoration workers are removing about 100,000 handbound books from their shelves and carefully placing them in crates, the start of a disinfection process that aims to kill the tiny beetles.

(Image credit: Bela Szandelszky)

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