Answer the question in English. What was the person checking the book out possibly curious about? How was the book discovered? What was suspicious about it? What conclusions did the library director draw from the condition of the book? How rare is this edition of the book? What experience does the library have about overdue books? What events characterized the time when the book was checked out of the library? What does the director of the library think of the value of the printed book? How much would the late fee for the book would have been? Felsőfok (C1) hanganyag szövege: Overdue book returned to library 119 years later A Massachusetts library is celebrating the return of a book more than a century after it was last checked out. On February 14, 1904, someone possibly curious about the emerging possibilities of a key force of nature, electricity, checked out James Clerk Maxwell’s “An Elementary Treatise on Electricity” from the New Bedford Free Public Library. It would take 119 years and the sharp eyes of a librarian in West Virginia before the scientific text finally found its way back to the Massachusetts library. The discovery occurred when Stewart Plein, the curator […]
