Watch: Overdue book returned to New Jersey library after 99 years

UPI via Yahoo ^ | 3/10/25 | Ben Hooper

[DallasBiff]

March 10 (UPI) -- An 81-year-old woman going through boxes of her mother's belongings made a surprising discovery: an overdue library book checked out by her grandfather 99 years earlier.

"I thought, I don't have grandchildren, and my kids are getting older. Even if my son took it, I didn't know what they'd do with it," Cooper told CNN. "I figured it belongs to the library."

[Cronos]

Cronos: Those encyclopedias are out of date and worthless.

Getready: I humbly disagree. There is some worth. It is a record of what was important at the time of its compilation. Much of what is written about is extinct...personalities, cities, nations, contraptions, historical conflicts ...that stuff is dropped out of current encyclopedias, printed and online. History should not be erased or forgotten.

You are CORRECT and I was wrong.

You brought out a very, very good point

[MayflowerMadam]

“Those encyclopedias are out of date and worthless. No one would take them.”

I would take them in a heartbeat. They’re the opposite of worthless. They’re where true history will live on, pre-woke and pre-revisionist era.