A day with the US Copyright office. Gasp.

I started before 11 am; it is now 3:01 pm local, and I just now got through registering the copyright on 4 books. I have to give the .gov site kudos for unflappability: it didn't lose info if you had to backtrack in the maze, and it developed an autofill button from your login, which made things really much easier as far as rote re-typing.

What they didn't say was you shouldn't USE the add new buttons to pile all your books into one basket. That took a call to a live human being in Washington ...