Woman with $12,000 library fines goes viral on TikTok after hoarding books for years TikTok: historyhanA woman has been left with fines of nearly $12,000 in library fines after checking out books from the library for her dissertation years in advance and then hoarding them at home. A lot of people know the stress of finding the right books and sources when doing any kind of research. Finding the right books is just part of the stress as you have to compete with others to get to borrow it from the library, leaving many to constantly renew books to not have to give them back. One TikTok user named historyhan, a PhD student in Medieval History, was left mortified when she got an email from her library claiming that she owed $11,900 after losing 119 books. However, Hannah hadn\u2019t actually lost the books, she was hoarding them in her home until she\u2019d finished her dissertation. How did woman accrue over $10k in library fines? Hannah shared a screenshot of the message in the beginning of the video before she showed off the piles upon piles of tomes that have built up around her home. \u201cAs it stands, your library account has $11,900 owed for 119 lost books,\u201d the email read. \u201cIt becomes \u201clost\u201d in our system after 30 days overdue. Lost books incur a flat rate of $100.\u201d The email continued to say that it was \u201cthe patron\u2019s responsibility to renew the books\u201d if they need to take them out longer and that the library \u2018sends weekly reminders\u2019 when they\u2019re overdue. \u201cAccording to our system, you received overdue notices on the following dates prompting you to renew your library books before they are declared lost,\u201d the email continued. Hannah then cut the video to piles of books all over her home as she wrote: \u201cThe books aren\u2019t lost, I\u2019m just hoarding them until I finish my dissertation.\u201d She went on to caption the video: \u201cThe librarian who sent this email must have felt so powerful #gradstudentlife\u201d Viewers are calling her a book thief In the comment section, the student admitted that she\u2019s had the books for \u201cyears\u201d but insisted she was still planning to return them. One person commented: \u201cYou mean to tell me that I cannot steal books they intended me to borrow? Unbelievable.\u201d Hannah replied to the comment: \u201cThey\u2019re not stolen, they\u2019re still in use.\u201d She continued to tell another viewer that she\u2019d \u201clearned her lesson\u201d after she was told hoarding books like this is considered stealing. Another person commented: \u201cUmm yeah that\u2019s way too long to keep that many books.\u201d A fourth person wrote: \u201cI work in circulation and this hurt my soul.\u201d However, everything seems to have worked out well in the end, as Hannah told people in the comments: \u201cThey let me renew them for a reasonable $20 fee, thank goodness!!!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Woman with $12,000 library fines goes viral on TikTok after hoarding books for years TikTok: historyhanA woman has been left with fines of nearly $12,000 in library fines after checking out books from the library for her dissertation years in advance and then hoarding them at home. A lot of people know the stress of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}