there must be a section in the library that has books.

Yes, it was much ado about nothing. My local library only charges late fees for specialty materials, not regular books.

I'm kind of a stickler; don't tell me I kept something overdue fot two weeks when it was only five days.

I don't know what libraries charge these days, but it's probably easier to figure out $1 per week than 15 cents per day.

It’s usually automatically done through the cataloguing software. This situation sounds like a computer glitch.

so it wasn't a question of how much I had to pay. It was just the fact that their records said I was two weeks late when it was only five days that stuck in my craw.

Basically it was much ado about nothing. But sometimes, that's just how I roll.

To me, it was the principle of the thing. Don't tell me I kept something two weeks overdue when it was only five days.

Like I said in my response to no. 2, it was much ado about nothing. Sometimes that's just how I am.

And it "hallucinated" that you had the book for two weeks.

That damn AI! It seems to be everywhere; it may as well be in the library.

Checked out, unless there is a hold on it. They also no longer charge fines.

It's almost impossible to have an overdue book, because I read the ones that have holds on them right away after I pick them up.

I get it, though. If they're going to keep track, then get it right!

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(High Interest Titles which are not renewable) but I had run out of all renewals for that one. My bad. I had reserved several books and they all became available at the same time. A few of them were not renewable so I had to read them right away and that book got pushed to the side.

I think I'll go check it out again since I had only read a few pages of it. Ha!

but I'll shelve it for now.








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Good one!

if you want to match or surpass this record:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/library-book-returned-82-years-note-says-grandma-wont-able-pay-anymore-rcna225255

Thanks for the article, True Dough. 82 years is a long time, but the one mentioned as the most overdue at the end, 288 years is really something! Wow!

And they made me pay for the price of the book, when it was their fault. Seems wrong to me. They had a hold on my account unless I paid for it. From now on, I never am putting books in the outside book drop, always inside where I can watch a librarian check it in

I would go inside and return the books to the librarian from then on too if that happened to me.

What a frustrating experience. I'm sorry that happened to you.