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In San Francisco, you can avoid library late penalties by writing your excuse creatively.
Recently, borrowers with overdue books were allowed to bring them back without paying fines – which max out at $5 per book – but they had to tell the library why they were tardy.
A group of second-graders said they were too busy rescuing marine mammals.
One woman said she just couldn’t part with a beautiful early 20th century book with good-feeling paper and plate illustrations. It looked so posh on her shelf.
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June 16th, 2009 at 2:18 pm
I wish our library would do that! But then I figure late fines are my contribution to public reading.
June 17th, 2009 at 12:26 pm
Who deems one “creative”? I recently paid $14.99 for a library book that I took to my junior level high school class. I was encouraging students to find transcendentalism in a Batman comic. Their responses were so-so, and someone stole the comic; live and learn.