John: sign at least 200,000 copies of Turtles All the Way Down (2017)
promise · status: kept · last event: kept (2017-08-29) · owner: John · last mentioned: 2021-04-02
In June 2017 John committed to signing at least 200,000 copies of Turtles All the Way Down, posting signing updates through the summer as the count rose from 80,000. He finished all 200,000 by late August 2017, and later videos recall the feat.
Part of: Turtles All the Way Down: announcement and publication of John's novel (2017)
Told alongside: John: sign every copy of The Fault in Our Stars (2011) · John asks viewers to pre-order signed copies of Turtles All the Way Down (2017) · John asks viewers to leave questions about Turtles All the Way Down in comments (2017) · John: answer viewers' questions about Turtles All the Way Down in next Tuesday's video (2017)
About: Turtles All the Way Down, Sarah Urist Green
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-06-27 | promised | John will sign at least 200,000 copies of the book, hopefully slightly more. | UNBOXING 00:01:08 |
| 2017-06-27 | progress update | Sarah turned the 2011 chart into a 2017 thermometer resting on stacked turtles; since January John has signed 80,000 and has about two months to reach his goal. (hedged) | UNBOXING 00:02:52 |
| 2017-07-11 | progress update | Still on vacation, John brought 35,000 sheets of paper and has signed very nearly 120,000 sheets. | Signing 200,000 Autographs 00:00:02 |
| 2017-07-18 | progress update | Signing update: John is just past 135,000 signatures. | Accio Decade Hallows 00:00:00 |
| 2017-08-01 | progress update | Signing update: John has about 34,000 copies to go, about 68 hours of signing, which he thinks is doable. (hedged) | Death and How to Avoid It (...for a while) 00:03:22 |
| 2017-08-15 | progress update | John has signed 184,000 sheets and is on the first of the two turtles; eight boxes (16,000 sheets, about 32 hours) remain, and he must finish by Monday (21 August 2017). | Very Hard to Desclibe 00:01:07 |
| 2017-08-29 | kept | John announces he has finished signing all 200,000 copies of Turtles All the Way Down; the boxes are gone. | 40 00:02:30 |
| 2018-01-30 | recalled | John recalls signing his name 200,000 times as arguably pathological joy in repetitive tasks. (playful, hedged) | Hank, I Have Some Advice 00:02:19 |
| 2021-04-02 | recalled | John went from 150,000 signatures for The Fault in Our Stars to 200,000 for Turtles All the Way Down and now 250,000 for The Anthropocene Reviewed, flooding the market. | John's World Record 00:01:27 |
What is said about it
2 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2017-07-11 · Signing 200,000 Autographs — John: Why 200,000? At the time it seemed like enough, but not too much. — 00:00:57
- 2017-10-10 · Turtles All the Way Down!!! A Reunion Video — John signed over 200,000 copies of the US edition, so autographed copies should be easy to find, except outside the US and Canada, for which he apologises. (hedged) — 00:00:51