OCD?

Actually, I never wiped books before I started getting books out for my grandson. Since then, I've always done it and it has now become a habit I am not willing to break. When he goes to the library with his mum, she doesn't think it's necessary to do the same.

Joined the library at 7 and have never thought about germs on books. Hopefully my immune system has benefited. If you thought about too many things you'd never use a swimming pool or share a jacuzzi and you'd spend your whole time feeling anxious.

Never thought of doing it, although once I washed a whole library book by dropping it in the bath! I 'came clean' and paid for it.
I never worry about bacteria and am seldom ill. Some of you will be horrified that I picked some stray raspberries this morning and ate them in the garden straight away! I don't often wash bought fruit either.

Shysal, our biology teacher used to say that fruit picked from the tree/bush shouldn't be washed as the bloom is nutritious, so your garden raspberries will have been healthy as well as delicious. However, I always wash bought fruit as well as pick-your-own because of the pesticides.

Library books sometimes look and feel sticky! you are going to be holding them a lot, so to clean them makes sense ( to me).

Shysal nothing horrifying about that. I pick blackberries from the hedgerow and eat it them on the spot. It's different.

So do I.

Oh, me too, and my girls used to do lots of blackberrying along with their granny, who turned the picked booty into her very potent wine. The girls ate loads along the way and loved those excursions.

I m wondering whether the library book sanitisers also wipe the pages ? Surely if germs were lurking they'd be inside too ?

No Bella that's a step too far!

Thank goodness !

Oh yes. Apparently the only way to sanitise a book is to bake it in a hot oven. (I don't go that far )

Library books have plastic covers so not a very good idea methinks !

True.

I wipe library and charity shop books. I never ever touch magazines in doctors or hospital waiting rooms - and don't get me started on the Bombay Mix in the takeaway or nuts on the bar!