Posted on 12/10/2020 10:19:10 AM PST by nickcarraway
Libraries in Japan are hoping a machine that sterilizes books using ultraviolet light is giving visitors reassurance to take-out publications during the coronavirus pandemic.
Libraries across the country are installing the machine, which takes 30 seconds to sterilize a book using UV light and flutter it pages to clear out dust.
The Narimasu Library in Itabashi, north of Tokyo, has had a machine installed since 2018 but the facility’s manager said that it is now being used three times as much.
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Either a delightful liquored dessert or a test of character in a no-win scenario.
Would it not be easier just to wash hands after handling the books?
I’d rather the books be exposed to UV rays than having to wear rubber gloves, because of government mandates, for the rest of my life.
Just out of curiosity, would irradiation work?
We live in a post-scientific age where “science” is anything the ignoramuses say it is.
putting them in a back room for a week or two before reshelving would probably work too.
I wonder how it will work with 50 Shades of Gray . . . I read where peeps were catching STD’s from the book itself.
What’s a book?
The whole world has gone mad-—and China relishes it all.
FTA: sterilize a book using UV light
I see stupid people wearing a mask OUTDOORS in the sun all the time. The sun kills virus’s in seconds.
They use relish in China?
” Itabashi, north of Tokyo “
Post flub . Itabashi is a ward IN Tokyo .
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