Most of our patrons are responsible and gentle with the Library's audiobooks. There are the occasional scratches that you just have to expect with heavy use. Then there are the CDs that come back to us gouged, cracked, spotted, even melted. I always wonder what people are doing with our audiobooks to damage them so severely. Sometimes we have a guessing game at the desk- used as a drinks coaster, used as a Frisbee, tap-danced on, used in a chemical experiment, microwaved, are some of the suggestions. One patron said while he would never do this to a library audiobook, he occasionally will fling a CD into the back of his car when he is done with it.
I think the title of the latest victim of carelessness says it all.
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I did have a patron confess to trying to microwave books one time (the plastic covering had melted.) He was trying to kill germs, he said.
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