Given the size of Colleen McCullough’s *Masters of Rome * books I’m amazed it went in!
Not long ago my son, suffering from car sickness, threw up on his copy of Eragon. (I wondered myself if it wasn’t a fitting end for the book, but he loves it so I kept my mouth shut.)
You did notice how part of it was still dry, even after falling in?
Relatedly (but referring only to books dropped in the tub, not those with contaminants other than water), is it possible to flatten those warped pages after they have dried? Not that I’ve ever dropped a book into anything, but I have a used book with some waviness in the center section that I would like to flatten.
Yeah - them books is BIG honkers. Only about the bottom 1/4" of the book actually went it - but that was enough…
Books, magazines, cell phones, wallets, cigarette packs, hats, car keys, pretty much anything I might ever bring into the bathroom with me has gone for a swim at one point or another. I’m all for saving water and blah blah blah, but they need to make the tanks bigger on the backs of the damned things and all of my pockets need snaps or something on them. 
“The brown whale! The great brown whale!”
Quick, we need to flag all of WordMans books. “Not to be sold or transferred.”
A successful career in literary criticism awaits.
see post #18 of this thread - can you imagine if I was casually reading any of *those * books in the loo? Dude.
Oh - and has anyone else noticed that this thread is currently right before the thread about how you can cut down on your personal book collection?
Too funny. Gotta love sequential threads…
You have a first edition Mockingbird? That’s impressive!
When I was in Junior High the book, from school, I was reading for English fell in. (Johnny Tremain.) I’ve kept them out since. In the spa I only read expendable things like New Yorkers.
Hey, using books as toilet paper is the only way I can think of to explain the sales figures of some New York Best-Selling authors, like Danielle Steel. People can’t be reading the damn things.
More lucky than impressive. 
Johnny Tremain was a turd, it’s actually where he belonged anyway.
They only thing worse is -dropping the last roll of toilet tissue in.
Worse that that; your cell phone. the ol’ cell-phone-in-top-pocket-lean-over-PLOP has happened to me more than once. Cell phones are resilaiant, though, and dry out to perfect working order, but still; you hold that thing to your face, man.
If you’ve already digested it, what’s the big deal?
Brings a whole new meaning to Reader’s Digest, doesn’t it?
I carry paperbacks in my back pocket all the time, so this has happened to me more times than I can count. I think the last one was Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart. It was a pretty small paperback, so there wasn’t even a corner sticking out. I had to fish the book out with the plunger.