Bugbear wrote:

"We set the bar pretty high for "patient" in these parts. Here's me finding an
unusual ruler in 2007.... Here I am finally identifying it, almost exactly 3
years later..." [links elided]

Why,  you old speed demon, you. I have books that I started to bind in 1986 and
completed and exhibited in 2013. And others I started the same year that year
and am still working on---worked on this very year, an fact. See:
http://handbookbinders.org/exhibitions/

and scroll down to the 41st Annual Exhibition of 2013; bindings are alphabetical
by binder's name.  Some of my better work is in the 40th (2012) and the 43rd
(2015) and 44th (2016) Exhibitions, in slightly unflattering photos.

Tom ConroyBerkeley