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Originally Posted by Mike L
I just visited my local public library -- for the first time in many months. I thought I'd get out a couple of printed books, just as a change from my Kindle.
What really struck me was how dirty many of the books were. I don't mean they were full of four-letter words; I mean the pages were really mucky.
I planned to take out a copy of To Kill a Mockingbird, but it was covered in -- at best -- coffee stains and odd remnants of the previous reader's lunch, and -- at worst -- well, I don't like to think about it.
To think that I used to put up with that kind of thing. Not any more. It's back to the screen for me.
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in all seriousness I remember an article fairly early on in Kindleland regarding what a boon ebooks are for allergy sufferers. apparently pbooks shelter dust, dustmites and other allergans very effectively, and obviously we are in a reasonably intimate position when reading so I imagine that makes it worse.
in somewhat silliness (cringeworthy?) I remember opening up library and classroom books and finding booggers in them. now, I can hunt and field dress a game animal intending for eating with no problem at all, but booggers in books are real retch and gag worthy