Almost 100,000 bookworms borrowed 80,000 books from Halstead Library.
Just over 96,000 people visited the Bridge Street library between April 2012 and March 2013.
Out of the county’s 14 town libraries Halstead had the sixth highest number of visitors and was seventh in the rankings for the amount of books issue.
But a further 8,900 people used the Halstead Mobile Library to borrow 24,341 books.
In the villages 25,165 books were borrowed by 19,564 people from Earls Colne Libary and in Sible Hedingham 21,214 were issued to12,799 people.
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