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!