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Janet

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> On 2020-12-30 7:09 p.m., Bryan Simmons wrote:
> > On Wednesday, December 30, 2020 at 1:14:21 PM UTC-6, Dave Smith wrote:
>
> >> I don't know about other people, but I find it difficult to select books
> >> to read without being able to open them up and have a look. Now I have
> >> to go by author and hope for the best, or go for re-reads of previously
> >> enjoyed books.
> >
> > My wife's library quarantined books.

> People breath on those books. They cough and sneeze on them. They
cough
> and sneeze on their hands and then touch the books. The virus can
> survive for a few days and be picked up by the next person who touches
> them. Somewhere along the line that person rubs their eyes or their
> nose, making it just as bad as airborne.

That's why quarantining books works and why libraries do it. Store
them until any covid virus on them is dead. Just a week is plenty

https://coronavirusexplained.ukri.or...ticle/pub0008/

Janet UK