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I love this article, from The Guardian. I once worked as a library assistant - but the worst thing I ever did was borrow more books than I should…

Judge shows leniency to remorseful book thief

…Police were alerted to the thefts when a rare book dealer in Somerset saw the library’s stamp on one of the books on sale online. Buckley, who was an amateur photographer, had uploaded pictures of such quality that the seal was visible to the naked eye.

When police raided his high-rise flat, they found more than 400 books, carefully indexed by Buckley on his own card system. The haul included a book of letters about the death of Louis XVI and a 1675 edition of English historian Willam Camden’s The History of the Most Renowned and Victorious Princess Elizabeth.

Officers also found a volume of political writings by Coleridge, Shelley and Keats. Between January last year and March this year, Buckley took the books in twos and threes from the library’s private collection. A security system failed to alert library staff to the thefts. Read full story here…

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