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@daviddlevine I understand book getting wet, (who amongst us haven’t spilled a whole cup of tea on our current book) but microwaving? That stuff goes under the sunlight!
@farah @daviddlevine Some people don't know what microwaves do. An American friend of mine put two slices of bread in one, thinking she could make toast. I suppose, you don't find out until you try! 
@farah @NormanDunbar @daviddlevine
As a kid i tried to hard boil an egg in a coffee mug in the microwave. The mess was epic
@RnDanger @NormanDunbar @daviddlevine I think we’ve all done that 
@farah
True! But I pierced the shell with a pin at the blunt end to let the air out of the air gap there, and no catastrophic explosions occurred! (Is there an emoji for a smug faced child? 
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@farah
PS. It was more like a darning needle than a pin. You need a decent sized hole!
@daviddlevine
“For suppository use only” labels should not be stuck on books. They should only be stuck on boxes of actual suppositories, and Teslas.
@daviddlevine
Yeah, yeah
Spilt, washed, tried to dry but
Where's the bit where they tried to shove it up their arse and more importantly
WHY?
@Sable_Shade Right? I think the lede is being buried here!
@sennoma @daviddlevine 
buried
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@daviddlevine what the? Lmao
@daviddlevine at least the book took the microwave with it
@daviddlevine Typical American. Put a warning sign in case the minority idiots might do stupid things. Just make a warning saying: "Not suitable for idiots".
this is so funny to read bc the other day i was seriously thinking of taking the 600-page book The History of Bhutan into the tub with me,
but it's just so damn big i knew that if i dropped it, i'd be totally screwed since it's a library book.
@rustoleumlove @daviddlevine
My solution: Water resistant e-book reader ... unluckily not an option for each book.
a good solution.
the funny thing is i have my phone in there all the time, bc i have the ereader app on it.
i am pretty sure that one day it'll get dropped into the water. oh well. pretty much worth the risk.
I can also recommend a watertight phone pouch, since that is cheaper than a phone
@daviddlevine What? I didn't know people use microwave to dry wet clothes too. 
@daviddlevine
Darwin Award earned 
@daviddlevine in case anyone reading this needs to know: I don't think it'll help the RFID tag, but I have successfully dried books (my own) on a clothes line using clothes pins to hold the covers so the pages fan out.
@akamran @daviddlevine Many years ago, there was a water leak at one of the university's libraries (clogged roof drain AFAIK), and since the door was glass I could see how they were drying the books. Basically, hanging from clothes lines and many portable dehumidifiers.
@daviddlevine I'd say, "don't put RFID tags in library books..." But then there's not *really* a good reason *to* microwave a book.
@daviddlevine After reading only the toot text, but not the image, my first thought was "well, putting a library book in the microwave would nix the RFID chip, right?"
I clearly need to go to nerd rehab.
@daviddlevine There are pens with ink that vanishes when heated and people have made notebooks specifically designed to be microwaved to erase and reuse. So I could see someone using one of those pens to mark up a library book thinking they could erase before returning
@daviddlevine we regularly get people returning loan laptops (and the charger) in to the automatic book sorter machine. Remarkably, the machine and the laptops have survived this experience.