The British Newspaper Archive progress

Did you receive an email that 1 million newspaper pages have been added to The British Newspaper Archive in 2014? That's an average 4,878 pages a day, seven days a week. At that rate 1.78 million pages will be added each year.

There are currently 8.37 million pages in the database so to get to the project goal, "to digitise up to 40 million pages" will take more than another 17 years at the present rate. The initial project goal was to achieve that in 10 years. Perhaps they're looking at technological improvements to increase the pace.

Each page added increases the value. I do wish they'd add some Great Yarmouth newspapers. Norfolk is looking rather neglected.