When Concord Public Library in New Hampshire announced a yearlong amnesty on overdue fines, hoping to get some of its many purloined publications back, it didn't expect to see a 1894 issue of Century Illustrated. Local man John Hanson walked in with it, reports NPR's Sophia Palaza-Carre, and the given excuse that he did not himself withdraw the item was impossible to refute, him having not been born for another half a century. — Read the rest

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Singapore's National Library Board wants to pay people to read.

The goal is to help people build a daily reading habit by giving them 20 virtual coins if they read 15 minutes a day and log the session on a government website. — Read the rest

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