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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Mar 31, 2021 1:02:32 GMT
 omaha.com/news/local/omaha-public-library-book-returned-50-years-after-it-was-due/article_eef7eac4-917c-11eb-b3e2-6b8959e5f31a.htmlThe book, "Coup d'Etat: A Practical Handbook," was supposed to have been returned July 29, 1970. It still had book cards in it, showing due dates from each time it was checked out. "We just kind of had to laugh," said Emily Getzschman, the library's marketing manager. In the book, originally published in 1968, author Edward Luttwak explains coups and analyzes the political, military and social conditions that lead to a coup. The book, which has more current versions, no longer is in circulation at the Omaha Public Library.
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Post by mikef6 on Mar 31, 2021 18:29:56 GMT
omaha.com/news/local/omaha-public-library-book-returned-50-years-after-it-was-due/article_eef7eac4-917c-11eb-b3e2-6b8959e5f31a.htmlThe book, "Coup d'Etat: A Practical Handbook," was supposed to have been returned July 29, 1970. It still had book cards in it, showing due dates from each time it was checked out. "We just kind of had to laugh," said Emily Getzschman, the library's marketing manager. In the book, originally published in 1968, author Edward Luttwak explains coups and analyzes the political, military and social conditions that lead to a coup. The book, which has more current versions, no longer is in circulation at the Omaha Public Library. I have a book on my shelf at this very moment that was due at the Abilene (TX) Public Library in June 1967. A classmate of mine took it with him when he left campus that same summer. A couple of years later, I was going to return for Homecoming so he gave it to me to drop off. I forgot it. Ergo, I still have it with me. In 2017, I went back for my 50th anniversary of graduation but, yep, forgot it again. Someday I may just mail it back. If I can remember.
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Post by novastar6 on Mar 31, 2021 18:47:40 GMT
Hate to think what that late fee would be.
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Post by Catman on Mar 31, 2021 19:13:15 GMT
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Post by Captain Spencer on Apr 1, 2021 3:23:23 GMT
I'm sure Bookman the library cop was on the case.  |
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Post by CrepedCrusader on Apr 1, 2021 5:31:41 GMT
I have a couple of Stephen King books that the library forgot to scan when I checked out a stack of books. This would have been in the last 90s. If that happened now, I'd just return them anyway. At the time I was a teenager, so I was just like, "Free books!"
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Post by politicidal on Apr 1, 2021 14:24:48 GMT
Better late than never.
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Post by Morgana on Apr 2, 2021 8:31:31 GMT
I'm very ashamed to admit that I have a library book that should have been returned around 10 years ago.  The book was The Persian Boy by Mary Renault, and it got me seriously hooked on reading about Alexander the Great. I'm not proud of the fact that I stole it. |
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Apr 4, 2021 21:22:02 GMT
Strange book to return so late...
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Apr 6, 2021 7:14:49 GMT
Strange book to return so late... Even stranger, it was checked out and returned by someone named Jeanine Áñez. 🤔 |
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Jun 12, 2022 23:45:01 GMT
Strange book to return so late... Even stranger, it was checked out and returned by someone named Jeanine Áñez. 🤔 😎 |
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Post by mikef6 on Jun 20, 2022 18:10:23 GMT
Maybe I have the winner. A college friend who graduated in 1967 took a library book with him when he left campus. When I was going back for Homecoming in 1971, he gave me the book to return but I forgot to take it. As I and my family moved around over the decades, the book always came with us. I visited the campus again in 2017 but didn’t give the book a thought before I left. If is still on my shelf to this day. I can see it from where I am typing this.
It is 55 years overdue – and counting. I wonder if I could get a 10% senior discount on the late fee. (Seriously, late fees usually stop at the price of the book.)
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Jun 20, 2022 23:36:42 GMT
Maybe I have the winner. A college friend who graduated in 1967 took a library book with him when he left campus. When I was going back for Homecoming in 1971, he gave me the book to return but I forgot to take it. As I and my family moved around over the decades, the book always came with us. I visited the campus again in 2017 but didn’t give the book a thought before I left. If is still on my shelf to this day. I can see it from where I am typing this. It is 55 years overdue – and counting. I wonder if I could get a 10% senior discount on the late fee. (Seriously, late fees usually stop at the price of the book.) What is the book? |
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Post by mikef6 on Jun 21, 2022 1:21:22 GMT
Maybe I have the winner. A college friend who graduated in 1967 took a library book with him when he left campus. When I was going back for Homecoming in 1971, he gave me the book to return but I forgot to take it. As I and my family moved around over the decades, the book always came with us. I visited the campus again in 2017 but didn’t give the book a thought before I left. If is still on my shelf to this day. I can see it from where I am typing this. It is 55 years overdue – and counting. I wonder if I could get a 10% senior discount on the late fee. (Seriously, late fees usually stop at the price of the book.) What is the book? William Shakespeare: A Biography by A.L. Rouse (1963). Some of what Rouse writes is now out-of-date or in doubt. I even caught him in a mistake. Further, Rouse was one of two Oxford dons who the History Channel brought on to defend Shakespeare authorship in their notorious 1989 documentary advocating the Oxfordian Theory of Shakespearean authorship i.e. that Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (1550 -1604), was the real author of the plays and poems. The fact that some of Shakespeare's greatest plays (King Lear, Macbeth, The Tempest) came after Oxford's death has not stopped them. Anyway, back to the question, in contrast to the young energetic presenters of Oxfordian theory Rouse and the other guy (I can tell you his name if you really want to know) came across as stuffy, dithering academics who could not put up a decent defense. I came across the mistake when reading up on a lawsuit that Will's daughter, Susanna, married to the town doctor, brought against a fellow Stratfordian. The man had been telling people that Susanna had "been naught" (had sex, committed adultery) with a neighbor and "had the running of the reins." About that last phrase, Rouse said it was appropriate that a daughter of Shakespeare would have a measure of independence. But that's not what it means. To have the running of the reins is to have a venereal disease. The slanderer didn't show for trial so case dismissed and an excommunication for him. I'm way off topic, I know. It's just that this interests me and that Rouse is pretty much useless.
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