Pulp Fiction

A librarian at the Caringbah Library in Sydney was surprised to discover that the book she was checking back in – Apple to the Core: The Unmaking of the Beatles – was a whopping 14,934 days overdue. No one knows how it found its way to a garage sale in Ballina some 900 km north, where it was bought by a man who decided it needed to be returned, 41 years late. The estimated late fees on this book? Just under $7500. Originally purchased by the library for $3.82 in 1974, it is now worth around $250 to collectors. Rather, it was; soon after it was returned to the library, it was off on another adventure, this time to be pulped.