Late book return

[Halbhh]

"In 1911, someone checked out a copy of the book “New Chronicles of Rebecca” from a library in Boise, Idaho.

For the next 110 years, the city’s libraries would survive pandemics, recessions and world wars — all without that copy of the 278-page series of stories by Kate Douglas Wiggin about an imaginative girl named Rebecca.

makes sense to me. Better late than never.

After 110 Years, an Overdue Book Is Returned to a Library in Idaho Boise.

heh heh But I was able to return one like after...some several years. (was it 4? or...6? kinda slips my memory for some reason)

I like it the book is in excellent condition. That makes sense to me. Like in a carefully packed box, a book is typically pretty safe for years and years and years if the box stays dry.

 

[Halbhh]

I remember now one of the instances of how I found a years-overdue book from the Austin library. We had moved, and somehow it had been packed in a box with other books, and then we were renting, so I didn't unpack that box quickly (and in fact we moved again in about a year). But eventually I opened that box of books and found the library book. Since I would visit Austin every year, I took it with me, on a visit, and returned it, years late.