It's a library book, not a Hot Pocket

[Zorro]

Tampa Bay librarians warn of a dangerous practice: patrons microwaving borrowed books to try to sanitize them in the time of the coronavirus.

The victim was a romance novel, large print, recently returned to the Kent District Library in Michigan.

But inside was a mystery: Librarians discovered the book’s innards were charred.

Turned out, someone put the book in a microwave oven, apparently attempting to kill off any coronavirus the last reader might have left behind.

Libraries are used to dealing with books dropped in a bathtub, penned across the margins or left out in the rain.

“I’ve never seen a burned book,” said Kent District Library regional manager Elizabeth Guarino-Kozlowicz.

And please, librarians say. Don’t.

https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/2020/07/03/its-a-library-book-not-a-hot-pocket/

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

1. Not to mention, the virus isn't going to be living on

the book in great enough numbers to be a problem.

My local library is waiting a week from when you drop off a book to checking it in, which is totally stupid and means that my books wind up being overdue. Not that the local library charges overdue fines, but still.

[mercuryblues]

2. i guess the romance novel

really got someone heated up.

[ms liberty]

3. I cannot count the hours I spent in the main branch

Of the Tampa Public Library. Or the hundreds of books I borrowed and read from there. I loved that library so much. I read thru pretty much everything in my branch and the next nearest before the time I was sixteen, so as soon as I was old enough I started driving downtown to it every week or two and take half a day grazing the aisles to borrow twenty or so books.
I can't believe people are zapping books. You would think that readers of all people would have read the articles about how short a time the virus is active on paper, plastic and cloth!

[marlakay]

4. Hubby says Fahrenheit 451! Nt

[lame54]

5. Now titled...

Fahrenheit Popcorn