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# If one needs to bring a sefer into a bathroom some poskim hold that two covers are necessary, while most hold that only one cover is necessary.<ref>Eliya Rabba 43:6 writes that if one needs to bring a sefer into the bathroom one needs to cover it with a double cover like we find by tefillin. Magen Avraham 43:14 argues that it is permitted as long as they're covered with one covering. Radvaz 3:513, Birkei Yosef 85:10, and Halacha Brurah 43:8 agree with the Magen Avraham. Mishna Brurah 43:25 cites the dispute. </ref> Today many poskim are lenient to bring a sefer into the bathroom even without a double covering.<ref>Halacha Brurah 43:8 is lenient like the Magen Avraham because anyway there are other factors to be lenient including the factor that a printed sefer might not have kedusha and our bathrooms might be considered a very clean bathroom in which there is no issue of bringing in a sefer. Yabia Omer YD 4:21:4 and Tzitz Eliezer 11:5 are lenient to bring printed sefarim into a bathroom in one’s pocket since the pocket is one covering and the printed sefarim might not have kedusha. Rivevot Efraim 1:8:2 allows bringing into the bathroom Torah notes with one covering. Similarly, Maharsham 3:357 is lenient with one covering such as a pocket but just keeping a sefer in a transparent covering is insufficient. [http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=21547&pgnum=58 Machezeh Eliyahu 1:8:30 p. 58] is lenient and adds that anyway the pants pocket count as a double covering. Teshuvot Vehanhagot 1:125 is strict for any sefer that has a name of Hashem.