If you want to know the effect that technology has on your mind when your tired, one time when it was like ten at night, I started having a panic attack because I thought my book was going to run out of battery. It was wild. I couldn't stop freaking out after I realized this though and that's a huge problem. Maybe it's the nature of books as a whole, relying on our imaginations to create a story out of otherwise meaningless information, or maybe it's just the fact that you shouldn't be reading the Illiad at 12:30 on a Tuesday night. You really shouldn't read the Illiad under these conditions. Your 3rd eye will open and you will access a pocket dimension in which bacteria are human sized and spray chemical on surfaces to kill humans so that they don't get an infection. In other words: It's like being indigenous in the 1800's and the chemical you spray to not get infected is arrows/bullets in the direction of the pilgrims so that you don't get weird white people diseases that will ultimately kill you.
Speaking of bacteria: THIS IS YOUR WARNING. This post contains mildly disturbing information about disinfectants and bacteria that may or may not ruin your life.
Now that that's out of the way, a lot of things like hand sanitizer, don't actually kill 99.9999999 percent of bacteria. They do and they don't. What most people take that to mean is that things kill most of all kinds of bacteria, but the reality is that they only kill a few specific kinds of bacteria. The same thing with rubbing alcohol. Some bacteria have adaptations that allow them to live in such environments. HOWEVER there are a couple of good things, the first being that disinfectants do kill like 99% of their target bacteria. The second is that most of the stuff that is not killed by things like alcohol are harmless. Things like yeast can survive in alcohol. Although alcohol is a specific thing. Things like hand sanitizer only kill some stuff like salmonella for example. Really what I'm saying is you should either use bleach or ethanol to kill things you can't see. Or just wash your hands you heathens. Seriously.
This is not to be confused with things like surfactants. Lysol, for example, is a surfactant. Aside from being a good substitute for caring about things you clean with it, it creates an environment that is difficult to live in. Imagine if someone collected things that smelled like your grandmother's dog, and only your grandmother's dog. You would not want to live with that person. It really just does the same thing with bacteria.
"BuT WhAt DoEs ThIs HaVe To Do WiTh BoOkS?????????" HOLD ON I'M GETTING THERE. Do you own books? If you answered yes, you may have an issue with your life. If you answered no, you may have an issue with your life. Don't worry, these are different issues.
If you said yes, you probably don't have anything to worry about. But if you get used books you should wrap them in a towel and THROW them into the freezer. You don't know how nasty the person who owned it before you was. If you're paranoid about getting contagious skin diseases, or about getting lice or bed bugs, this is a good thing for you. It's weird, but leaving them in your freezer for a couple hours kills things.
If you said you don't own books, the above portion doesn't apply to you. It also means you don't read. You should evaluate why you don't. Is it because you were forced to read books you didn't enjoy? Is it because you haven't found the author you like yet? Is it because you don't like words? Don't worry, you'll find your book eventually. However if the reason you don't read is because you don't like words, I hope you contract cats. You are in league with the people who don't like chocolate.
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