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Tens of thousands of books are in . They are being eaten by beetles. The centuries-old books are being taken off the shelves of a in a medieval abbey in Hungary. Pannonhalma Abbey was founded in the 996. It is four years older than the Kingdom of Hungary. One of the in danger is a complete Bible from the 13th . There are also hundreds of manuscripts from before the invention of the printing press in the mid-15th century. Library are carefully putting the books and manuscripts in boxes. The boxes are being sealed in large plastic . The oxygen has been removed from the sacks. After six weeks without , all of the beetles should be dead.

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