I'm visiting a friend with two very good dogs, and the vibe is very "you have two hands for a reason"

Reader, I went to the bookstore to purchase one specific book.

I did not walk out of the bookstore with one (1) book. 😂

No, seriously, where do they all COME from?

(Or, the results of cleaning and organizing one's office -- one finds out exactly how many of the little tape measures have found their way into one's possession 😂)

Search "English Short Title Catalogue" as a phrase in Bibliography Citation Keyword (select 'as a phrase', don't use quotation marks). Add a second search line with the number you want.

At the bottom, there's often a section listing the recorded holding libraries. (You have to un-collapse it.)

Yup, I just was going to the library for a minute. Just going to kill a little time before meeting up with a friend. Yup yup.

So, I am reading a standard secondary source claiming that the July 4, 1859 issue of the Illuminated Quadruple Constellation had pages of 4 1/6 x 8 1/3 feet.

We have that issue, I was looking it at last week, and that is WAY over the measurements I took (50 x 34.5 inches). 😭

Some days one ends up taking over an entire reading room table to look at materials.... Or two pushed together, when the pages are unopened and you are unfolding the sheet to look at the inside 😂 (although I didn't grab a picture of that, being very preoccupied with the paper wrangling) 📚

Sometimes you need a break from the complicated, months-long projects and make a quick pendant