> Don't assume people are being stupid and you're the only smart one. Sometimes really smart people do things in really suboptimal ways because of tradition or

> Don't assume people are being stupid and you're the only smart one. Sometimes really smart people do things in really suboptimal ways because of tradition or other blindspots, and an outside perspective can break a person or a field out of a local minimum. Maybe it's already being done, but installing a low-light camera above whatever workbench they use to analyze these ancient books with a footpedal or something to capture an image would provide some insurance against loss before proper archival, even if they don't open every page due to fragility. > A phone light may not be healthy. Modern cell phone cameras are quite capable of taking images without the flash in very low light conditions, either through high ISO or long exposures.