Book returned to library more than a century late

HELSINKI - A Finnish library-goer apparently thought 'better late than never' and returned a book on loan for more than 100 years to a library in Vantaa, Finland.

The library had long since lost track of the loan but welcomed back to its collections the bound copy of a 1902 volume of Vartija, an active religious monthly periodical at the time.

"We do not know when exactly it was borrowed and who is the one that returned it. There weren't any documents with it," the library comments
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"There is an old note attached to the book which says there is a fine of 10 pennies a week for late returns," she added. Finland has since moved on to using the euro as their sole currency.

The library sticker inside the cover, and the old-fashioned handwriting on it, showed that the book was last officially loaned out at the beginning of the last century, she said.

Oddly enough, the book was borrowed such a long time ago that the Korso branch of the Vantaa library, where it was finally handed in, did not even exist when the book was borrowed.

Via Reuters.