Dozens of people return overdue books to the Boston Public Library every day. Probably only one person, however, has ever walked in holding a book that had been missing for 80 years. Please salute Julie Geissler, the New Hampshire resident who stunned library staff members by showing up unannounced one day in 2001 to return a rare first-edition copy of Charles Darwin’s "On the Origin of Species," one of the most famous books ever written.
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> Dozens of people return overdue books to the Boston Public Library > every day. Probably only one person, however, has ever walked in > holding a book that had been missing for 80 years. Please salute > Julie Geissler, the New Hampshire resident who stunned library > staff members by showing up unannounced one day in 2001 to return a > rare first-edition copy of Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of > Species," one of the most famous books ever written.
Looks like Mr. Saklad has finally gotten BPL to post stuff in public!
> Dozens of people return overdue books to the Boston Public Library > every day. Probably only one person, however, has ever walked in > holding a book that had been missing for 80 years. Please salute > Julie Geissler, the New Hampshire resident who stunned library > staff members by showing up unannounced one day in 2001 to return a > rare first-edition copy of Charles Darwin’s "On the Origin of > Species," one of the most famous books ever written.
What was the fine?
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> > Dozens of people return overdue books to the Boston Public Library > > every day. Probably only one person, however, has ever walked in > > holding a book that had been missing for 80 years. Please salute > > Julie Geissler, the New Hampshire resident who stunned library > > staff members by showing up unannounced one day in 2001 to return a > > rare first-edition copy of Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of > > Species," one of the most famous books ever written.
> What was the fine?
I'm betting it was outweighed by the appreciation in the sale price of the book... -- John S. Wilkins, Philosophy, University of Sydney scienceblogs.com/evolvingthoughts But al be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre
>> > Dozens of people return overdue books to the Boston Public Library >> > every day. Probably only one person, however, has ever walked in >> > holding a book that had been missing for 80 years. Please salute >> > Julie Geissler, the New Hampshire resident who stunned library >> > staff members by showing up unannounced one day in 2001 to return a >> > rare first-edition copy of Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of >> > Species," one of the most famous books ever written.
>> What was the fine?
> I'm betting it was outweighed by the appreciation in the sale price of > the book...
>> Dozens of people return overdue books to the Boston Public Library >> every day. Probably only one person, however, has ever walked in >> holding a book that had been missing for 80 years. Please salute >> Julie Geissler, the New Hampshire resident who stunned library >> staff members by showing up unannounced one day in 2001 to return a >> rare first-edition copy of Charles Darwin’s "On the Origin of >> Species," one of the most famous books ever written.
> What was the fine?
if they're clever, they'd get her to insure it for the next 80 years.
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