I'm confused about that "library book"...

[Rowen Avalon]

To Free 2 be me: Not in the early Eighties, since there weren't that many computers around, and certainly not for small local libraries. Also, I've really never heard of a librarian making note of someone NOT checking out a book. If she was going to make note and if she had a computer, she would just have looked up Nita's barcode. In deed.

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Rowen Avalon
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well, i think that she simply never returned it, kuz she couldn't. (she NEEDS her wizard manual) but i think the librarian trusted her or sumtin to keep the book. but i think DD should have mentioned that sumwhere in the first book so her readers wouldnt be baffled!!!

[wizFAN]

Wasn't there some point in one of the books where the librarian said she could keep the book? If so, we must turn our minds to the question: is the librarian a wizard who understood Nita's need for the manual? Maybe I'm wrong, but will someone check for me?

Goodwill to all,
Perry, an avid(and that hardly covers it)fantasy reader

[Agent M]

Maybe she told the librarian that she lost it and then she just paid for it. But maybe that would be too simple.

Evil will always lose.- Miep Gies

I think the manual being magical in itself, wasn't really real for the librarian and faded out of her memory quickly.

[Rysade]

[Tilly]

I always thought that, despite the number on the spine of the book, it wasn't *actually* a library book, so wouldn't be in the register. So no-one would notice it missing. As for barcodes and tickets... I used to have paper tickets for the library and I hadn't started getting books out of the library until after 1983. Big box on the librarian's desk with all the tickets in date order. Great fun when your ticket got stuck in the wrong slate. The poor librarian used to have to search through at least three weeks worth of tickets. Don't remember having those metal detector things either.

I can understand how a librarian would forget about a book quite easily particularly given to a responsible girl like Nita.

Sharon

[wizFAN]

Hey that's a really good thought!!
perryTon the Odd
and if you think I'm weird, you should hear what my Nepturnian friends think about me!!

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