Anonymous I work at a public library. A teenage boy came to the desk. He looked nervous. "I found this," he said. He put a copy of Harry Potter on the counter. It was lost 3 years ago. It was battered. "I stole it," he admitted. "We didn't have money for books. But I read it. I read it ten times." He pulled out a crumpled $10 bill. "For the fine." I looked at the computer. The fine was way more than $10. I looked at the kid. He was honest. He was a reader. I took the $10. "Actually," I said, "The fine is exactly zero dollars during Amnesty Week." (There is no Amnesty Week). I pushed the money back to him. "Buy your own copy," I said. "And come back. We have the sequel." He comes in every Tuesday now. Libraries are for reading, not for accounting.