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

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

Monday 14th July 2025, 5:24AM

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.

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