Posted on 12/18/2023 9:49:35 AM PST by Red Badger
Dec. 15 (UPI) -- A Pennsylvania library revealed a copy of Chauncey Brewster Tinker's classic Beowulf was recently returned after being checked out 54 years earlier.
The Sewickley Public Library said in an Instagram post that Beowulf was checked out in January 1969 and wasn't returned until this month.
The overdue book would have accrued nearly $1,000 in fines under the 5-cent-per-day policy of the late 1960s.
"In reality, we would have charged the cost of this item since it's been gone so long. That means the borrower would owe....$0.98, which is how much it cost to purchase the title in the 1920s," the post said.
The post said the library has since gone fine-free, so whoever borrowed Beowulf doesn't need to worry about any fines.
"As long as library users return borrowed items, their account will be cleared and they can continue to check out materials to their heart's content," library officials wrote.
That book may be the reason I flunked the the seventh grade twice.
Reading that book made my hair hurt.
Miss DeGroot : You know, Mr. Bundy, I’ve worked at this library for 44 years. I was eligible for retirement 3 years ago. Do you know why I stayed?
Al Bundy : You learned to eat books?
I saw the movie. It was done in that quasi-realistic CGI cartoon-like format.
Had they used real people it might have been a good movie..................
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beowulf_(2007_film)
Miss DeGroot : You’d like to check these out, would you? Well, I’m afraid you can’t! Do you know why?
Young Al : ‘Cause I didn’t bring you French fries like the other boys do?
Miss DeGroot : You’re a bad seed, Bundy. You can’t have these books because you are consistently overdue, you never have the money to pay... and looking at you now I doubt you ever will.
Young Al : I’ll bring ‘em back, I promise.
Miss DeGroot : You always promise, but you don’t follow through. And that, in a nutshell, is your problem. Make a promise, keep a promise.
Young Al : Yeah, yeah, bake a pie, eat a pie.
It was worth it not to have to read the damn thing.
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