This might interest librarian-authors searching for interesting space fillers =========== 68 years later woman returns a library book and pays no fine. Swag! The woman got a book issued in December 1948 and visited the library to return the book only in 2016. Guess how much fine she should have paid? IndiaToday.in | Edited by Sanjana Agnihotri New Delhi, April 28, 2016 | UPDATED 17:58 IST Reading books often make us travel to different worlds and let us create our own imaginary one. Well, that is why fiction is always better than reality. As a kid, many of us have had one special book that makes us feel home no matter how many times we read it. Perhaps, A.W. Reed's "Myths and Legends of Maoriland" was that book for a lady who came to return this book to a library after 68 years. A 70-year-old woman visited the Epsom Community Library in Auckland, New Zealand and she came with a 'confession'. She had borrowed the book from the library when she was the patron of the library as a kid but then she moved out of Auckland and 'accidentally' took the book with her. After nearly 68 years, while was visiting her family in Auckland she thought of finally returning the book. The woman told the library staff that she thought of returning the book many times but did not get the opportunity. Even after so many years, the book was in 'excellent well-read condition', Epsom Community Library wrote in a Facebook post. The woman told the library staff that she took Myths and Legends of Maoriland as a child and now is a grandmother herself. She said she had read the book a number of times over the years. But since the book was issued on 17 December, 1948 and should have been returned in a week's time, she actually has a heavy fine to be paid. According to the terms of the library, the woman should be fined 102.50 pounds for the 24,604 days it was overdue that too if not adjusted with the inflation. But the Epsom Library has decided not to fine her and were more than happy to get the book back and hear the story. She was more than half a century late, but then jab jaago tabhi savera! http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/68-years-later-woman-returns-a-library-bo... -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.