One over, that is.
It’s another extremely important and major milestone for Mrs. Kwakk Wakk’s Comics Research Site: The number of digits in the page count has increased! One more digit! Whoho! Look at how puny the number was just a day ago:
Yeah, yeah.
What finally pushed the count over the limit was that I’ve continued to top up the “text pages from comics” category. (It has non-comics pages from comic books — i.e., letters pages, editorials, “hype pages” and the like.)
I think we’re now up to 50K issues? But the vast, vast majority of the comics are super-hero comics, so there’s not that many letters pages featuring “T. M. Maple”, for instance. So, it’s a very skewed collection.
At least so far — I guess I’ll continue to run the scripts, and perhaps some indie comics collections will show up eventually. I wouldn’t hold my breath, though.
(To put this into context — the “queue” is 3K items long, and we’re up to… item 283 now. *gulp* That’s 3TBs worth of comics so far, so if the queue is consistent, we’ll end up at 30TBs of data to sift for text pages… Possibly. But I guess many seeds as we get further out into the queue will be dead, so possibly not.)