A library book has just been returned after 84 years out on loan.
A library book in Coventry has finally been returned 84 years and two weeks past its due date. The copy of Red Deer by Richard Jefferies was last borrowed in 1938.
But it was only brought back to Earlsdon Carnegie Community Library on Tuesday. Paddy Riordan returned the book on behalf of his late grandfather Capt. William Humphries, who had borrowed it for his daughter Anne, who died recently.
Mr Riordan calculated that the book was overdue by 4,385 weeks before returning it. He also paid the fine of 4,385d - by donating the equivalent sum of £18.27 in today's money to the library.
However, if today's fine rate of 25p per day had been applied, the fee for the late return would be £7,673. Red Deer had been borrowed eight times before Capt. Humphries took it out. It was due back on 11/10/1938.
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Have you or any of your family ever borrowed a book which you have never returned?
I do remember borrowing two books on psychology from Plymouth library in about 1970. Unfortunately the dog chewed them up so thoroughly I had to go in and pay for replacements.
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Recommendations please, for a stopover on the way to Loch Tay
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