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John: sign about 150,000 sheets so every US and Canadian pre-order and first-printing copy of The Anthropocene Reviewed book is autographed (2020)

promise · status: kept · last event: progress update (2021-05-14) · owner: John · last mentioned: 2022-06-21

In autumn 2020 John promised to sign every first-printing copy of the US and Canadian edition of The Anthropocene Reviewed, about 150,000 sheets; in February 2021 the count grew to 250,000. Despite a sore hand he finished in March 2021.

Part of: The Anthropocene Reviewed book: announcement and publication (2020)

Told alongside: John's signing hand stops working right; doctor and occupational therapy (2011) · John: copies of The Anthropocene Reviewed book ordered outside the US and Canada will probably not be signed (2020) · John: narrate The Anthropocene Reviewed audiobook (2020) · John writes his first nonfiction book, The Anthropocene Reviewed (2020)

About: The Anthropocene Reviewed (book)

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2020-09-01 promised As he did with The Fault in Our Stars, John says he will sign the entire first printing of the American and Canadian edition. get the show on 00:01:27
2020-09-29 promised John thanks pre-orderers and says he will sign the just over 150,000 sheets behind him so every US and Canadian pre-order and every first-printing copy of the book is autographed. How 'bout Yours? 00:00:00
2020-10-20 progress update John says signing takes a while: rushing, maybe 700 sheets an hour, but counting sorting, collecting paper and changing pens, about two hours per thousand, so 300 hours. How to Sign Your Name 150,000 Times 00:00:00
2020-12-31 progress update The description says The Anthropocene Reviewed will soon be a book and every copy of the first printing will be signed by John. Auld Lang Syne: The Anthropocene Reviewed video description
2021-01-12 progress update To make sure every copy of the first US printing of The Anthropocene Reviewed book is signed, John must sign about 10,000 times a week; the stack he shows is about 600. My 2021 Vision Board 00:02:16
2021-01-19 progress update John is going to the hand doctor because his finger isn't working, hopefully not because he has signed his name over 500,000 times in ten years and must sign 100,000 more in three months. (playful, hedged) let's go on a parts adventure 00:00:00
2021-02-09 changed John now needs to sign 250,000 times so every first-printing copy of The Anthropocene Reviewed book is signed; he will do it, and thanks pre-orderers. Lesser Known YouTube Channels I Love 00:00:00
2021-02-23 progress update John is signing with a purple Sharpie to sign all 250,000 copies of the first US printing; the first 100,000 or so were easy, but he still has 300 hours to go and his hand hurts a little. A Little Joy and Color in an Otherwise Unbearably Bland Life 00:00:29
2021-03-16 progress update The description notes that only the US and Canada editions will be signed. How a Book Cover Gets Designed video description
2021-03-30 kept John announces he has done it: he has signed his name 250,000 times. I did it! 00:00:00
2021-04-02 kept Hank notes John is now at 250,000 signatures for The Anthropocene Reviewed and later congratulates him. John's World Record 00:01:27
2021-04-27 progress update Paperbacks will not be signed, because signed tip-in sheets can't be bound into them; only hardcovers. What is my new book about? creator comment
2021-05-14 progress update The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green comes out May 18 and all copies will be signed; Hank's is. This Vlogbrothers Stat Blew My Mind 00:03:40
2022-01-11 recalled The description plugs The Anthropocene Reviewed, now available as a 'rare UNSIGNED hardcover', via Bookshop.org. (playful) The Fault in Our Stars - Ten Years Later video description
2022-06-21 recalled John saw his hand doctor because his hand isn't working perfectly; the doctor recalled advising him to sign less, after which John signed 250,000 copies of The Anthropocene Reviewed. (playful) On Disease 00:00:00

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