I tried to do a book report on The Three Musketeers in high school, only to discover the local library had discarded its only copy because no one had checked it

I tried to do a book report on The Three Musketeers in high school, only to discover the local library had discarded its only copy because no one had checked it out in years. (This was a few years before Amazon and Project Gutenburg, with no bookstore in town. Nowadays I own two different translations in print and have another on my phone.)