If books could kill . . .

Conservator writes “St. Petersburg Times Book Editor Margo Hammond writes in a review of 100 Most Dangerous Things in Everyday Life and What You Can Do About Them by Laura Lee that ‘Books are an often overlooked hazard, sending more people to the emergency rooms than many common sports.'”

July 6, 2004 by Uncategorized 4

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  1. mdoneil says:
    July 6, 2004 at 6:15 am

    Shenanigans
    I call shenanigans. I have worked in emergency rooms for more than 12 years and never have I met someone injured by a book. Even the drunks don’t hurt themselves with books.

    Of course the next day I work someone will come in with a book related injury.

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  2. Gales says:
    July 6, 2004 at 6:16 pm

    Large quantities of books
    I’m not sure if it will count, but I was once the victim of a bookcase at home. I was rearranging some of the contents and the entire thing fell apart with me temporarily buried. Fortunately, my eldest daughter heard my curses and rescued me. No trip to the emergency room, but old and frail that I am, I was sore for days.

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  3. slashgirl says:
    July 6, 2004 at 8:22 pm

    book injuries
    I’ve dropped books on my feet, gotten cuts from the book covering on books (like a paper cut), gotten paper cuts, slammed books down on my fingers but nothing requiring hospital visitation.

    Although, when I was taking my LT course, our course coordinator/instructor told us that books like Sears, Dewey, and LCSH were great for the “quiet domestic murder”. I’d agree, especially any of the LCSH volumes. LCSH was good, too, if you happened to get a low chair at the typewriter or computer; or if you happened to just be short…Many of us in that course had dark humour, including our instructors. It was the same coordinator that introduced us to Edward Gorey, and, esp. The Gashleycrumb Tinies (she read to us every friday morning). Wish I could put that poster up at work, but the parents and teachers might not appreciate the humour…

    s/

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  4. Samantha says:
    July 8, 2004 at 4:29 am

    books, or their associates?
    I dropped a box of books on my knee the other day. Of course, if it weren’t for the box, the books would have been far less harmful to my knee…maybe the box is at fault!

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