Posted on 03/11/2025 1:35:04 PM PDT by 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."
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Don't have a calculator, but the article states the fine today would be $18,000.
Back in my day Librarians were stern women, some had faint moustaches.
Lol, don’t Bundy that book.
I just bought an older book online and it had belonged to a library at one time. It even had the check out card in it still.
lol… ‘some had faint mustaches’ .
Anyone want to make the toys?
Yup . Lulled into a false sense of comfort with the motherly children's librarians. Then shocked by the reality of Nurse Ratched types when you aged up to the adult library section.
Ssshhhhhh!!!!
If someone goes through my personal effects after I am gone,
they will come across a couple of dozen books that
may look to them as being overdue library books.
I bought them at a library book sale many years ago.
They still have the “property of” stamps, and the card holders.
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“...made a surprising discovery:
an overdue library book checked out by her grandfather...”
How would she know the book was checked out by her grandfather?
When you check out a book, you sign the card,
and the library keeps the card until you return the book.
The card does not stay with the book while it is checked out.
Was it Seinfeld
It was a first edition of Huck Finn./S
I’m gonna go and check it out. I mean look at it...
That scene, and that actor, are a part of our cultural history forever!
1st reply and we already have it.
Nope
The best Seinfeld and Married With Children episodes.
Libraries still exist?
I have a full set of World Book Encyclopedias bought in the 70s with several year in review books for 1978 to 1984 or so.
Perfect condition. Most not even opened.
I have no idea what to do with them. Heavy, hardback books.
I don’t think a school would want them. Or Goodwill. Library?
Everything is on the internet now.
I don’t want to just throw them away.
Suggestions?
Probably found out when she returned the book...From old records...
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