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January 27, 2009

Fear not, Baltimore borrowers

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I checked in with Roswell Encina, director of communications at the Enoch Pratt Free Library, and he has reassured me that the police won't be coming for you delinquent readers.

"Here at the Pratt Library under no circumstances will we have anyone arrested for not returning books or any items," Encina wrote in an e-mail.

"If a patron hasn't returned a book or any item for a period of time we refer them to a collection agency."

Of course, I'm assuming the collection agency isn't run Dog the Bounty Hunter-style.

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Dave Rosenthal came to The Baltimore Sun as a business reporter in 1987 and now is the Maryland Editor. He reads a wide range of books (but never as many as he'd like), usually alternating between non-fiction and fiction. Some all-time favorites: A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole; Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupery; and anything by Calvin Trillin or John McPhee. He belongs to a book club with a Jewish theme.
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