I am reading Meredith Willson's book about THE MUSIC MAN recommended here by DR MATTH a few weeks ago when it was ON SALE at Amazon.com! Very funny.
I'm starting it tonight. Looking forward to it.
I have loved this book since I found it in my hometown library in 1962 or so. In 1991 or so, when I was back visiting family, I checked the library and found the book still on the shelf; it had not been checked out since 1964! So, i had a friend of mine check it out for the first time in nearly 30 years, send it to me, and declare it lost. I paid the library for the book and I'm very happy to have it.
When I was going to Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington, the public library actually had signs up saying that doing this was a misdemeanor.

I don't doubt that people everywhere do this all the time, but that was the first (and so far only) time that I'd heard about any library system criminalizing the practice.