This is why I refuse to return my junior high library books. I don’t want to end up on the news
Paging Mr. Bookman ...
In December 2022, his grandson, John Lamb, returned the book to the library. Only 119 years after it was first checked out!
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The library can finally call the next person on the waitlist for the book.
The late fees are probably over a million dollars.
I’m only about 45 years overdue
I have a book about the Korean war too where they write about all the human waves from hundreds of thousands of Chinese commies
Our guys had to just keep mowing those little suckers down till their gun barrels were red hot
No worries. They had great expectations it would be returned.
I know, groan.
Whether a convict who returned to England after serving his time would face the death penalty seems unlikely--maybe someone else will know. But Dickens made it part of the plot. What Alfred Hitchcock would call a McGuffin. (Or is it "Maguffin"?)
Did the library send them an overdue bill?
Remember, George Washington had an overdue book, Vattels’ “Law of Nations” which many here swore didn’t influence him.
After a period of time, libraries will make you pay to replace the book. If the grandfather paid the replacement cost then the book is theirs.