You’ve just dropped your favorite, out-of-print book into a bathtub, ruining it completely … What do you do now?
Whine. Post on the BookCrossing forums about it. Then pop onto AbeBooks and see about finding another copy.
One time my cat urinated on my backpack, utterly destroying the book I was currently reading. But then, it was The Da Vinci Code, so she may have just been commenting on my taste in literature.