diff --git a/cache.go b/cache.go
index de300fa..08a66da 100644
--- a/cache.go
+++ b/cache.go
@@ -869,24 +869,22 @@ func (c *cache) DeleteExpired() {
 }
 
 // Write the cache's items (using Gob) to an io.Writer.
+//
+// The caller should register any custom types with encoding/gob.Register
+// before calling this function.
 func (c *cache) Save(w io.Writer) (err error) {
 	enc := gob.NewEncoder(w)
-	defer func() {
-		if x := recover(); x != nil {
-			err = fmt.Errorf("Error registering item types with Gob library")
-		}
-	}()
 	c.RLock()
 	defer c.RUnlock()
-	for _, v := range c.items {
-		gob.Register(v.Object)
-	}
 	err = enc.Encode(&c.items)
 	return
 }
 
 // Save the cache's items to the given filename, creating the file if it
 // doesn't exist, and overwriting it if it does.
+//
+// The caller should register any custom types with encoding/gob.Register
+// before calling this function.
 func (c *cache) SaveFile(fname string) error {
 	fp, err := os.Create(fname)
 	if err != nil {
@@ -902,6 +900,9 @@ func (c *cache) SaveFile(fname string) error {
 
 // Add (Gob-serialized) cache items from an io.Reader, excluding any items with
 // keys that already exist (and haven't expired) in the current cache.
+//
+// The caller should register any custom types with encoding/gob.Register
+// before calling this function.
 func (c *cache) Load(r io.Reader) error {
 	dec := gob.NewDecoder(r)
 	items := map[string]*Item{}
@@ -921,6 +922,9 @@ func (c *cache) Load(r io.Reader) error {
 
 // Load and add cache items from the given filename, excluding any items with
 // keys that already exist in the current cache.
+//
+// The caller should register any custom types with encoding/gob.Register
+// before calling this function.
 func (c *cache) LoadFile(fname string) error {
 	fp, err := os.Open(fname)
 	if err != nil {