214 pages completed. I think I've done an admirable job of drawing this phase out so I'm not simply waiting (and going crazy), with nothing to do until July 10th. If I'm being honest, it hasn't been very difficult to draw out the process as it is a chore to work through the physical proof, more than any other edit pass thus far.
I'm not sure how many more times I can actually read this book. Start to finish, I'm easily in the multiple dozens by now. I can't tell if that's normal, or if I'm just trying to lessen my dissatisfaction with my work by repeatedly subjecting myself to it over and over in an attempt to desensitize my brain. Kind of like playing the same wrong note over and over again to lessen its impact.
Thankfully, most of the edits so far are related to formatting. Haven't yet found a single typo, although I cannot for the life of me figure out why that makes me so absurdly happy.
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