Emily Canellos-Simms has received a Guinness World Record for the largest book fine ever paid at more than $345. Cannellos-Simms paid the $345.14 fine even though she wasn't the one who actually borrowed the book. Advertisement She found the book, Days and Deeds, a book of children's poems in her mother's house that was due back at the Kewanee Public Library in Illinois on April 19, 1955. The fine had ...