It’s about 2-3mm in length. Central European location.
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What is this thing?
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Silverfish have a use?
They eat mold afaik. So if you see them, you know there's a source of humidity/mold you ought to check out.
Don't they also eat all your paper and organic fabrics?
Exactly. Also silverfish eat house dust mites.
Eating books and paperwork.
They eat bugs and stuff. Not spiders though, that's a myth (unless they're already dead maybe).
Might be thinking of house centipedes which do eat spiders and are also commonly called silverfish, at least around where I'm from anyway.