Whilesome librariesno longer take in late fee forbooks , charge per 24-hour interval for overdue items is still stock . That means defrayment can reach triple digit if people ignore due dates . Fortunately for one Chicago resident physician , a library in Detroit let a him keep his long - overdue Holy Writ free of charge decades after he checked it out and failed to come back it in 1974 .
Chuck Hildebrandt , now 63 , borrowedBaseball ’s Zaniest Starsfrom the Warren Public Library when he was a 13 - class - previous in township for Thanksgiving . The item was due on December 4 , 1974 , but he never got around to returning it . He only recently realize the Christian Bible belonged to the Warren Library while he was packing up for a move . “ When you ’re moving with a bunch of books , you ’re not examining every book , ” Hildebrandt told the Associated Press . “ You throw them in a box and go . But five or six years ago , I was go through the bookshelf and there was a Dewey decimal program library act on the book . ”
When Hildebrandt see that it was meant to be return to the Warren Library in December 1974 , he keep it until December 2024 think the fiftieth anniversary of the due date would guarantee publicity . He was veracious .
In improver to get to keepBaseball ’s Zaniest Stars , Hildebrandt ’s salient fees were also forgive . He is now lift $ 4564 — the approximate amount owe for a book overdue by 50 eld — forReading is profound , a non - profit organization set on improving child literacy rates nationwide .
Fifty years is a long time , but it ’s notthe recordfor the world ’s most overdue library record book . That differentiation goes to a German publishing about the Archbishop of Bremen . The textual matter was published in 1609 and borrowed from the University of Cambridge ’s Sidney Sussex College in 1667 or 1668 . A professor in the UK stumbled upon the book 288 years later and return it in 1956 without being charge .
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