Relfections On The Library

I recently re-discovered the public library. You can check out all kinds of great things on just about any topic at the library. You don’t have to go to Amazon to order the new Steinbeck or Max Lucado for 20 bucks. Just go to the library, read it and return it. And I recently started checking books out at the library again for the first time since I was a kid…But as an adult, I have a fear I never had when I was a kid…Am I the only one feels like I'm going to catch botulism from checking out a library book?

Is this an irrational fear? I always feel like I should wear gloves because you never know who had it before you. I always picture some sweaty, sick person in the bubonic plague ward at the hospital as the one who had the book before me.