He could not steal. Steven Bloomberg - all his books

Its activities are many striking. And the figures, and the amount of stolen and the time interval during which it operated. 20 years, more than 20,000 rare books and 11,000 unique manuscripts from the US Canada's universities. The amount stolen is estimated at approximately $ 20 million.
He was schizophrenic manic attachment to books: the collection he kept in home cabinets. Read one, throwing, I began to read another. The sophistication and diversity of methods is striking. This is not a Blue Thief Alchen. Theft, forgery of documents picking up the keys to the vaults and even penetration ventshahty and elevator shafts. Easy entry to the credibility of the library employees.
He was not spoiled and did not sell any of the stolen books, and at the time of arrest, his house resembled a warehouse of a major publishing house. After a long time, Stephen became a regular reader of the prison library, in front of the FBI and book experts faced the task of a thorough identification of the stolen books - many libraries are even unaware of the loss of the funds. In 1995, all the books of the so-called "Bloomberg Collection" were made to the database of The Book Return, and only got through a stolen book back a few months of intensive work all libraries. Together with the books in the library also came a small documentary about Bloomberg - one copy of each film in

. Today Steven Bloomberg is the greatest book thief, known to mankind. Though his achievements and not be proud, but nevertheless they deserve a certain kind of attention.