The 'book falls in the bath' problem!

Put typing paper in between ever single page. And straighten them out as much as possible. After an hour of slow drying, take out the typing paper and replace it with fresh typing paper. Sit on the book so that all lays flat. Keep taking out the type paper and putting in dry.
The only way I have ever 'passed' the librarians' gruesome gander, was to do just everything I mentioned. Just keep changing the paper in between so it keeps absorbing. And be sure to keep it all flat under pressure. (sitting on it)
If you don't change the paper enough, the pages will start to stick together, and make one nasty sticky mess.
I hope all goes well for you. Good luck

Thank you; it has dried out quite a bit now, so I've put it between two heavy bricks, hopefully it will get rid of the 'wiggle'

Oh my! I once dropped a copy of "Dombey and Son" in the loo - and I was writing an essay on it as I read it - I was about half-way through!

Hairdryer was the only thing - and rubber gloves. It was my own copy, though.

Glad your book is looking ok!

The Book falls in the bath problem
Well, I can't help you with the drying problem, but I think I can beat it; I borrowed a book from the public library many years ago, and dropped it in the bath BUT to add to the fun, the cover was red, and it duly ran - and it looked as though I was bathing in blood!

You People!!!!!!!!!!

No wonder librarians give you such looks! Long suffering saints they are !

The Book Falls in the Bath Problem
Well, get this: I WAS a librarian at the time!

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Librarians and teachers are absolutely the worst customers! (read my profile!)

I think I am going to get away with it!! The book has been squashed between two bricks for over 24 hours, it is drying with no wiggles! Woo hoo!

dlowan, what a shame! Worst loo experience I had was dropping my specs, in their case, in a public loo - the case filled up, and they sank like a brick to the bottom, lol! Yuck. A library book in the loo, well that would be pretty traumatic!!

tomkitten, That's a good one!

I was reading my mom's beloved copy of John Adams. She bought the hardcover version because it was one of those books that she wanted to save, not to mention keep nice, throughout the years... Well, it was the summertime, and I was reading outside...it's hot, so I decide leave the book outside, get a drink, and come back...well....I don't come back.....and it thunderstorms during the night...oops! so the next morning I sneak the now bloated book back into the house and hide it in my ceiling tiles....I live in a small town, so there was no way I could buy and replace the book any time soon... I want to escape a lecture from my mom, so I don't tell my mom of the books fate...so for many months I "read" John Adams...til finally I go to Minneapolis and buy the book....that the book is a replacement is a secret that will hopefully go to my grave......

jnfr

and welcome to A2K!

lol, jnfr, your secret is safe with us!

I understand that some deep sea divers invest in read-once paperbacks to read as the ascend slowly, slowly avoiding the bends.

Evidently if the book never dries out, it never gets crinkly and awful.

Gosh, how long does it take to ascend??
I wonder what the library would think if I returned the book in a jar of water - 'I think you should start a section of books purely to be read in the bath...'

thanks for keeping the secret I can just imagine the librarians response if you returned a book in a jar of water and say, "if you keep it in the jar, it'll never get crinkly!!" HA!---oh dear, i seem to relish the thought of book abuse a bit too much, don't I....I am like an abusive husband....i love books, but i shall make them MINE!! muwahaha..... moral of story, never lend me a book

I'm not a diver myself, but I understand that six to eight hours of rising slowly and pausing frequently to decompress are not uncommon.

The alternative is The Bends.

Thanks for answering, Noddy. My uncle suffered from The Bends many years ago, it's not nice But I had no idea that it could take as long as six hours to rise from the depths!

I was once reading a little book and after a cigarette break took it into the toilet with me...this is when I came across the strange 'slow motion book falling syndrome'...as the poor little thing fell, I could see it wanting to be caught...it seemed to take hours and my books whole life flashed before my eyes...

Well, then I nearly got sacked as the whole thing made me laugh so much that I couldn't do anything but laugh for the whole next hour....bearing in mind I was a civil servant...not a good place to have spontaneous laughing fits about things in the loo!!

The book is crinkled but I am pleased to say that it survived the ordeal...!

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