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I just don’t understand the line, “To date, all the books have been returned.”

Are they still expecting tomorrow that some of these books will no longer have been returned?

Books get different return-by dates based on their popularity in Sweden, so some have to be returned in a e.g. week, some in a month. So perhaps they just meant that none of the return deadlines have been missed so far?

Did they even say when this event occurred?

Nov 1st

4 November, actually. All Saints’ Day gets a bit confusing in Sweden, because there are two of it — one on 1 November, which is not a public holiday, and one on the Saturday after, which is. The one on Saturday tends to catch people by surprise, because most don’t work on Saturdays anyway, so they don’t expect this Saturday to be special, but then it turns out that shops and services they expected to be open are, in fact, closed.

I means that regularly books are lost in libraries for various reasons, but for this particular time range, (surprisingly) all were returned

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