Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre offers pardon for literary outlaws

For the next three weeks, Montreal’s libraries are offering outlaw readers a chance to wipe the slate clean.
If you have an overdue book in your possession — be it days, months, years or decades past the deadline — you can return it to the library without incurring late fees. That’s right, for just this one brief moment in time, the library is giving you a chance at absolution.
Provided the book remains in good condition, they’ll take it back no questions asked.
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