Is plain white 16 lb. bond paper still sold anywhere?

Yes but if you have a zombie to carry it for you…

Reeeaaaaaams!

I’m pretty sure she already took the trip :slight_smile:

nm. Too late to point out the zombificity

**garygnu **FTW!

Yep, took the trip. Didn’t have an operational ebook reader at the time. I had a bricked Rocket eBook Reader (still mad about that). Ended up taking a few regular mass market paperbacks and leaving them behind when I was done reading them, and found, in a Tel Aviv bookstore, a nice thick one to bring home: Acacia, tipping the luggage scales at 768 pages.

However! I did end up ordering some boxes of superannuated 15 lb. Mead typing paper, probably vintage mid-90s, and it runs through our laser printer just fine.

I have heard since then that acidity is a much bigger problem with paper from the 80s and earlier. I don’t recall whether more recent paper is supposedly less acidic or is somehow resistant to deterioration for other reasons. But my 90s-era paperbacks don’t have that old-paper smell that I remember books having when I was a kid, and they haven’t yellowed at all.

Wikipedia on acid-free paper sez:

Not clear to me whether this passage is meant to apply only to designated acid-free paper or to commercially produced paper in general.