I took an overdue book back to the library on Monday

[MIButterfly]

It was due March 29 and I brought it back on April 6. My account said it was two weeks overdue. March 29 to April 6 is eight days, not two weeks. Since the library was closed for three days for Easter, technically it was only five days overdue. I brought that to the attention of the librarian and she looked up my account but couldn't figure out why it said two weeks so she went and got her supervisor who couldn't figure it out either and told me she was "going to look into it."

Whatever.

[Historic NY]

1. Its arithmetic

there must be a section in the library that has books.

[Norrrm]

2. How much was the massive overdue penalty they could not let go?

[MIButterfly]

5. Nothing

Yes, it was much ado about nothing. My local library only charges late fees for specialty materials, not regular books.

I'm kind of a stickler; don't tell me I kept something overdue fot two weeks when it was only five days.

[forgotmylogin]

3. If they accumulate fees by weeks, 8 days spans two weeks.

I don't know what libraries charge these days, but it's probably easier to figure out $1 per week than 15 cents per day.

[intheflow]

4. Fines accrue daily.

It’s usually automatically done through the cataloguing software. This situation sounds like a computer glitch.

[MIButterfly]

7. My local library doesn't charge late fees for regular books, only for specialty materials

so it wasn't a question of how much I had to pay. It was just the fact that their records said I was two weeks late when it was only five days that stuck in my craw.

Basically it was much ado about nothing. But sometimes, that's just how I roll.

[MIButterfly]

6. My local library only charges late fees for specialty materials, not regular books.

To me, it was the principle of the thing. Don't tell me I kept something two weeks overdue when it was only five days.

Like I said in my response to no. 2, it was much ado about nothing. Sometimes that's just how I am.

[nuxvomica]

8. They probably upgraded the system to use AI

And it "hallucinated" that you had the book for two weeks.

[MIButterfly]

9. LOL!

That damn AI! It seems to be everywhere; it may as well be in the library.