Books are dangerous.

My mother used to joke that I could hurt myself doing just about anything.

She’s right. I once put on hand lotion before attempting to do a triceps dip on my coffee table and I slipped right off the edge and hit the back of my head on the way down.

“Do you have a concussion?” my mother asked, clearly more annoyed than concerned.

She had to ask me things like that a lot while I was growing up and I’m sure the trip to the emergency room was not her proudest moment as a parent.

But at least – at least – I'm not like 80% of college students who claim to have physically hurt themselves on a text book.

According to a new study conducted by Zogby International on behalf of CafeScribe.com, “Many of the 600 students surveyed reported potentially serious health issues as the result of buying, reading, carrying, or using a textbook…”

It seems I really lucked out. I bought textbooks all through college and I never managed to injure myself on them.

Not even when I put them on my coffee table.