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Well this is no joking matter. LOL

…was arrested earlier this month in connection with a pair of books overdue for several months. Oh the great horrors against humanity!

I understand your "point" but I think this is a quite a bit excessive.

…cuffed and stuffed in a cruiser, and booked for violating the "overdue library materials" ordinance. She also had to pose for the below mug shot at the Grafton Police Department

What did her arrest, the cost and time and wages of the policemen, the booking and processing and other such administrative costs, cost this town in comparison to the actual cost of the books? When does not returning a library book elevate to the same sort of treatment that a real criminal would get – a drug dealer, a child molester, a drunk driver, a burglar? There is no more serious crimes to prosecute in this town that over due library books?

Geeze, just give her a citation or even a wage garnishment, but to come to her home and handcuff her and haul her off to jail because she deprived someone of their “right” to read "White Oleander" or "Angels & Demons" for free? Some of us would say that anyone who is that desperate to read those books might deserve to be hauled off somewhere.