Australian library gets book 28 years late

A book has been returned to an Australian library 28 years overdue.

A book has been returned to an Australian library 28 years overdue.

The tome, 'Best Crime Stories 2', was taken out in 1984 and has been returned anonymously to the facility in Melbourne - but librarian Kerry O'Hara is not planning to search for whoever returned it.

She told ABC: "[The book is] no longer on our system. We now charge 25 cents a day for anything that's due back late, but I think that one we'd have to let go."

The library caps fines at $15 for overdue books, but in today's rates the overdue fee to pay would've been more than $2,500.

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