"Beetles chewed holes in hundreds of books at Israel's national library, but spared the rare and precious examples — including the letters of Albert Einstein.....
"The beetles usually don't eat modern books whose pages are treated with repellents, said [Rosalind Duke, deputy director of the Jewish National and University Library]. The wood-eating insects also don't like the taste of ink and prefer the binding and the margin of the pages."
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