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Readers in Fife, Tayside and Angus have escaped library fines totalling thousands of pounds during the coronavirus crisis.
Books fans have kept hold of 44,456 overdue books in the area after the Covid-19 crisis threw return schedules into disarray.
Scottish crime stalwarts Ian Rankin and Stuart MacBride join lesser known names – such as His Bloody Project writer Graeme Macrae Burnet – among the top writers least likely to have made it back onto library shelves.
Many libraries across the region had previously managed to reopen in a limited form, but the latest virus guidance means outlets have again closed their doors.