11 books, 33 days late, $0.05 a day :rolleyes:
$60 for three books my daughter ruined. She ruined a previous book as well. I’m not taking anymore out until she’s at least five. I buy them at garage sales now. Cheaper that way.
I paid 36 dollars for a lost book a few years ago. I found it a few weeks later, but I’d lost the receipt by then so I couldn’t get part of my money back (they refund minus the max. late fee of five dollars plus another five dollars for I guess paperwork).
I always have a fine. I just found a book this morning I thought I’d returned at least a month ago. Add that to my current late fines and I’m up to almost twenty dollars again!
Saddest, most pathetic part is I live directly across the street from the library.
I just forget!
My (Canadian) university library charges were:[ul]
[li]$1 per day per item. [/li][li]Unless it was a “Reserve Room” item where you can only check it out for a few hours. Those fines were $1 per hour (or portion thereof) per item to a max of $31.[/li][li]Lost book charge - $150.[/ul]A friend of mine worked in the library and said people regularly had multi-hundred dollar fines. My personal highest was about $120 (four books a month overdue). I had given them to a friend to return it for me, and they didn’t bother to let me know they didn’t get a chance to drop them off. [/li]
:wally <-- me, for trusting my jackass friend in the first place
About 1,000 dollars to 1,500. I know it’s within that range.
…and I still haven’t found some of those damn books.
[QUOTE=Waenara]
[li]Unless it was a “Reserve Room” item where you can only check it out for a few hours. Those fines were $1 per hour (or portion thereof) per item to a max of $31.[/li][/QUOTE]
We had the same late fees at our university library too, except there was no max, so there were people who ended up paying a couple hundred in late fees on one journal.
I got fined $15 because some jackass didn’t bother to check in the journal I took out, and just reshelved it instead. I still got fine even though I showed up (we were sent notices the day of the fine) to contest the fact that it had been returned - and showed them the copy was on the shelf. :mad:
At public libraries the highest fine I’ve had was either $11 or $8, I forget which.
I’m a light weight. When I was around 12, I had a 25 cent fine.