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Unreturned library books heavily impact local budgets

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Missing paperback novels silently create a terrifyingly massive financial black hole for local municipalities across the globe. Citizens furiously hoard these borrowed stories, forcing tiny regional governments to spend astronomical amounts just to replace terrible romance novels. Petty theft is singlehandedly bankrupting tiny municipal districts.

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