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Posted By: barrysloate

I've been exchanging emails with him too, and I agree with Lee completely. It is archivally acceptable to take a book completely apart, photograph the pages, and then have it sewn back together. That is done sometimes when rare books need to be cleaned and restored. But ripping out the pages and selling them is not acceptable. I sent him a long and detailed message and the response I got this morning was "Thank you. Good luck." That didn't strike me as a satisfying explanation.