 In my last monthly roundup video, I showed off this vintage magazine of fantasy and science fiction that I got in the mail. And I said I was going to use this as an example of how you should not pack a book for mailing. And here's why. Number one, the plastic is wrapped around the book skin tight. This makes it more difficult to remove the plastic. And when you're talking especially about a book that's old and delicate, the recipient is going to have to bend, crease, or even break the book to find a way to tear the plastic off. Number two, this plastic, it's not the kind of plastic that's used to store comic books and other books in an archival manner. This is like sandwich bag plastic. It doesn't respond well to tape. It usually bonds too permanently to adhesive tape. And also this particular packing job was done with packing tape. You can see the edges of the packing tape here on the cardboard. This is packing tape like you use for boxes. You can't see it on the plastic here because it's perfectly transparent. But this kind of packing tape, which again is intended for the exterior of boxes, it bonds too well with plastic bags, even with the kind of archival plastic that's used for comic books. And you can't get it off. This will not peel off. Again, when you're dealing with a delicate older book like this that's been packed skin tight, I'm going to end up bending the book, or creasing the edges, or maybe even tearing the cover, just trying to get the tape off. In this case, there's enough of a lip here for me to get scissors under here, but still I'm going to risk damaging the book doing this. It causes a lot of problems. Also, it's important to put some kind of cardboard backing on books like this. In this case, the cardboard was too small in the width dimension. And the packing tape, which was wrapped around the edge of the cardboard, bonded to this single layer of skin tight plastic here. The plastic merely stretched and distorted, which again will end up creasing and damaging a delicate older book like this. So, find cardboard that gives you plenty of room to cover a book. Give it like an inch to cover all the dimensions of the book that you're wrapping. If you don't have a big enough piece of cardboard on hand immediately, then just wait till tomorrow. Get a box from the local grocery store or something. It's more important to get it done right than to be in too much of a hurry. I'm going to cut this off real quick. See if I can do this without damaging the book and see if I can slide it out. Okay, I'm having trouble with the plastic not cutting. See, I'm having to bring the scissors into contact with the book itself and that's not good. Okay, here we go. It's easy to get carried away with packing books or anything in particular without keeping in mind how it's going to be unpacked by the recipient. This book is okay. It hasn't been terribly damaged but I've had situations where books and pictures and even artwork have had to be damaged to get them unpacked. This is the kind of thing that you should use. The kind of bag that comic books and magazines are bagged in and just use scotch tape. That's plenty to keep a book or a magazine secured inside its plastic bag. And instead of packing it super tight, it needs to have some movement. And the way you keep it secure is by sandwiching it tightly between pieces of larger cardboard and not by taping the book itself down to the cardboard. So anyway, there you go. That's my advice. Once I've read this particular issue, I think I may do a special review just for this. See you then.