Hit 150 finished books this week, never counted before

I keep a binder with every cover I've bound since I started, mostly to track my glue and cloth usage. Last Tuesday I flipped through it and landed on page 150, so I actually stood there and counted every entry. That number mattered because I remember struggling through book number 11 where the spine cracked on me twice, and now 150 feels like a different skill level. How many finished pieces do you all keep track of, or do you stop counting once the pile gets big?

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blairc901mo ago

You ever just sit there and realize you've made more books than you've read in the last five years? That's where I'm at, so I get it. My count is somewhere around 40, but I stopped keeping exact track after number 12 because my binder was starting to look more like a scrapbook of my failures. The spine crack on book 11 sounds brutal though, I had one where the glue just gave up and the whole thing fell apart in my hands. Now I just stack them on a shelf and pretend the wobbly ones are "artistic choices". Honestly, you're ahead of me, I'm just impressed you made it to 150 without losing your mind or your fingertips.

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