1,000 bottles of ink, here I come

I just updated my ink spreadsheet, to add advance entries (in green) for all the bottles due to be delivered in May, as well as do some minor clean-up of bottles I've given away or sold† and hence I no longer have.

Not counting any of the forty bottles (totalling >2.1L in volume) given away, or the 10 ‘blind box’ (i.e. mystery or ‘lucky dip’) bottles from KittyInkpot with unidentified — and possibly unidentifiable — contents, the number of bottles of ink will come to 997. (Come to think of it, it should be 998, as I'm sure I have two bottles of Montblanc Corn Poppy Red, after a friend decided she didn't want to use or keep her bottle any more and passed it to me.)

So, the actual number of bottles here will exceed 1,000 in a month's time, even if the Ostrich Inks official store on Taobao doesn't throw in any freebies this time. Last time I ordered twelve bottles of ink from it, the seller added three free bottles to the parcel, outside of any terms of the sales order agreed upfront. In April, I ordered 93 bottles from it.

† Bottles that have been given away are tracked in hidden rows at the top of that spreadsheet, while bottles that have been sold are simply removed altogether.