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Reeeeeee, why AREN’T you wearing gloves? Digitization does not obviate physical preservation.
Gloves are not best practice for handling rare books! We follow the guidelines followed also by the Smithsonian Institution and the British Library among many others.
Basically there are very few instances where we might wear gloves, and it would probably be to protect us (in the case of, for example, bindings made with arsenic) and not to protect books.
Photographs and museum artifacts have different rules around gloves! But we only handle books on our channel.
