The first link below is to a research paper about how long the SARS-CoV-2 virus can survive on various types of surfaces. I do not know if this was fully peer reviewed. Personally I believe the organizations involved in the research provide a certain amount of credibility. One of the materials tested was cardboard. This is as close to a book as I have been able to locate. The second link is the feeder article. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.09.20033217v1.full.pdf https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/03/tests-show-covid-19-can-live-on-some...