Have you ever heard the phrase, “He wrote a book about it” — meaning he wrote just a bit too long on a particular subject — and wondered where it came from?

No, I don’t know where the phrase came from, either. But, I can tell you that’s what we do every single day at the Newton Daily News.

In the English language, the average length of a book is about 60,000 words. The average length of a single issue of the Daily News clocks in right around 58,500. What makes our effort a little more amazing, however, is the time frame in which we write our “book.”