Can you clean mold off water-damaged books or should I throw them away?

What people tried

Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.

1. 1
   Throwing the book away
2. 2
   Using an autoclave
3. 3
   Trying corn starch using a method found on Google

In their words

Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.