I've heard the phrase "Read, mark, and inwardly digest" applied to learning but I never thought it was meant so literally as to include "ingest".

The recommendation that Until the testing is done, the nation's more than 116,000 public and school libraries "should take steps to ensure that the children aren't accessing those books," Wolfson said. "Steps can be taken to put them in an area on hold until the Consumer Product Safety Commission can give further guidance." gives safety recalls (particularly) and OH&S generally a bad name. Especially if they have not done any objective surveys on how many children have, literally, sucked their books to extract all meaning and can back their recommendation with proper statistics.

Cheers, Rowan