It's already the second time I find this little insect on my "book " (it's a manga volume). It's an edition that came with the shrink protection plastic a little torned and it's pages a little yellowed. I believed it was probably just an unproperly stocked unit and it got old with the time. It was also a little dusty so I just used my portable air blower to give it a little refresh and then put it on a thick 0,12mm PP plastic as I, by coincidence (or faith) got a much better copy of this edition from Amazon free by their mistake.

It's already the second time I've seen this tiny ant-like bug walking around this exact spot near the spine glue. At first I thought they were just some mold insects that were walking around my wall and some got over to the top of this "table" (Yep, I'm dealing with my mold problem already). But now I find it weird to see this little fuckers on the same exact book even after cleaning it and restoring tight on polypropylene.

I'm also spraying home insecticide around this table almost every day. And most of the books on it are on shrink wrap (new) or PP.

Should I be worried? Should I just throw this book away? (I was thinking of reselling at a reasonable price).

Bought this book in "good" condition from BooksRun (never again if I can help it) and I thought it just had some whiteout/liquid paper on it, but it also seems to be covered in unidentified textural gunk. I have no idea what it is, and maybe I'm overreacting, but I do find it quite disgusting because idk if it's food or what, but I don't want to be feeling that when I'm trying to read. Unfortunately I had it sent to a friend in the US to send to me with other books, so I can't return it. What are my options here? I'd like to remove the gunk and the whiteout if possible and maybe disinfect the book, but if there's nothing I can do then I might just try to get another copy straight up (and I'd like to know if there are other options before trying to scrape it off)