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…For Britain’s most avid, and responsible, reader, aged 91: 25,000 books borrowed over 60 years with NO LATE FINES. Someone give that woman a medal, and put her sweet face on a poster for library advocacy.
Louise Brown, 91, has read up to a dozen books a week since 1946 without incurring a single fine for late returns.
She borrows mainly large print books because she is partially sighted, and has almost worked her way through her local library’s entire stock.
Library staff in Stranraer, Dumfries and Galloway, say the pensioner’s rapacious reading habits over 60 years could earn her a place in the record books.
You don’t need the record books, honey. You’re in our good books forever!
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July 31st, 2009 at 12:24 pm
Personally, I find the “dozen books a week” part more impressive. (Though, were I a cynical man, I might wonder if such a thing is humanly possible.)
July 31st, 2009 at 2:15 pm
I’m clapping.
July 31st, 2009 at 3:31 pm
I get a lot of fines, but it’s my way of contributing to my library; it’s my civic duty, if you will. There are times when I should have just bought the book, however.
August 2nd, 2009 at 7:42 am
I agree with Tizzle. My late fees are an unofficial donation.
August 3rd, 2009 at 1:46 pm
WOW.