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When I worked at the public library as a teenager, I proposed a "hundred dollar bill contest," where we would announce that there was a hundred dollar bill in one of the books. The head librarian got a horrified expression when she realized what I was proposing, and threatened to fire me on the spot.

So I wouldn't mess around with God. ;-)

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I seem to recall that this has been tried and then hordes of people stormed the library, went furiously through the books and basically threw them on the ground, making a huge mess until the bill was found. Not exactly what the librarians had in mind.

Maybe this explains the time I found a $20 bill in a rather obscure library book.

The university library I worked in as an undergraduate had a $100 note inside a hard copy of someone's PhD thesis, put there by the author.

It was still there when I left, four years later. The secret of its existence was amazingly well kept by the staff - and nobody read the thesis.

Should have used a cheque

Why?

Presumably in order to notice when/if it's cashed?

I think it really takes some of the magic away for the recipient, and the wonder away from the author don't you think?

Sometimes it's nice to just put a bit of magic out in the world and let it be without running tracking on it.

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