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How low can you go?
This low! Mark Michrina, writing in the Saturday 9:00 am slot, really got the lead out! He finally reached a point where he simply could not leave any more marks!
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The pencil just went topless!
Check it out: the metal band and eraser separated from the pencil while Ken was starting a fresh page. It was bound to happen after more than 29 hours of continuous use.Now, we're operating with a golf...
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Samples from the 163 pages SO FAR
After 30 hours of continuous writing, the pencil measures in at 3.45 inches. There's lots of narrative left in that baby yet!
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A report after 32 hours into the effort
We were fortunate to have an excellent pencil sharpener at hand in the Library. We heartily recommend the Royal P40. The best feature is the little light labeled "SHARPENED." As soon as we saw that...
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The copying continues
Here we see Emmett Eldred, Keith's son, wielding the Biconderoga at Keith's kitchen table, the new site for copying. The pencil endures! As of our last report, we had copied through page 132 or our...
View ArticleA final list of our writers!
Thanks to all!Jeffrey KetnerShirley BowserCrystal CrissmanRev. Marlys HershbergerAnna SylvesterDonna RiggenSuzanne SylvesterPamela JohnsonJanice AlbrightConnie LetscherJohn LetscherJanet EldredEthan...
View ArticleWord-counting update
Our estimate of words written keeps changing as we keep writing and counting. Through 65 pages of text in our edition, we have counted 17,600 words for an average of about 257 words per page. We have...
View ArticleEnd of Sunday update
I wish this were moving faster, but other areas of life keep intruding, and word-counting and word-copying are both slow endeavors. : )I can report that we've copied up through the middle of page 168...
View ArticleThe counting has caught up with the writing!
Words written so far: 41,518The page we've reached in the book: 170Actual number of pages from which we've copied, starting with the title page: 167Average words per page: 249Length of pencil...
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Definitely an above average pencil
We passed 45,000 words--the number mentioned in the Discover magazine article as average for a pencil--at about 8:20 on May 18. Ethan Eldred was writing at the time.Here's a picture of the word: hot....
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Big winner
We just received this great picture of Andrew Lashinsky, the lucky lad who won the huge wooden pencil that was one of the decorations in the Library during the book copying.Andrew is one-third of a set...
View ArticleWord count update: 70,000-plus! (we think)
We've passed page 300 in the book and have once again outpaced the counting of the words. Using the last words-per-page average that we calculated (249 words per page) gives an estimate of around...
View ArticleLatest estimate: 90,000+ words
We reached a count of 75,000 words on page 307. Text actually starts on page 3, so that makes 305 pages of text, for an words-per-page average of just about 246. We've copied through page 370, so our...
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