Retired ARS information specialist, Kate Hayes, with the Technology Transfer Information Center, testing Zorbix sheets at 10-page intervals to get a wet book 90 percent dry in 3 hours with three changes of Zorbix. Zorbix is a patented flat sheet containing a super absorbent polymer designed to dry wet books and documents. Zorbix was invented by Artifex Equipment, Inc. and the USDA's National Agricultural Library. It effectively soaks up to fifty times its weight in water.