Help I can not get the cotten strings!

[jens]

If you have it then clicking on the box of strings should be the only thing you need to do, when looking at the box there should be a hand in a picking posture as an icon and you can pick the string.

make sure you really have the book(maybe you died after picking it or something, but I think it saves when you leave the room with the book) and also look in your inventory so that you don't already have the string, the icon for it(if memory serves me right) is quite thin and might be hard to see.