contest: purple sock yarn

Blog contest in celebration of finishing my thesis - guess the number of references in my bibliography. Deadline for answers is 5pm, Thursday 24th July 2008 Friday 25th July (London time). The closest guess wins this skein of sock yarn.

Its a wool and bamboo mix, dyed by me. 100g, it comes in at about 420 meters - plenty for a pair of socks. From a smoke and pet free home, though it does still smell a bit of grape-flavoured koolaid (my dye of choice). I might throw in some other purple-themed goodies too if I find anything worthy. In event of a tie, I'll pick one winner at random. No one who has read the thesis can enter.

Some clues to get you going:

• It includes both primary and secondary sources.
• The actual thesis content these sources support comes in at just under 100,000 words.
  
• My case study is this series, though I mentioned many other primary examples, and my secondary source list was much longer.
• My media studies inclined colleagues felt it was a bit citation-heavy, the litcrit types thought it was sparse.
• The photo below shows the thesis open at the page the bibliography starts. There are no appendixes after that. It is 1.5x spaced, in 11pt font on A4 paper.
• Its more than fifty, less than three thousand.
• You might as well guess something random. When I tried to guess, I was a good hundred off, and I wrote the bleeding thing.
  

EDIT: I mean 'closest' as in nearest guess either way (you can go over). So, if the answer was 7586 and no one gets that but someone gets 7588 and another 7584, I'll pick one of the two out of a hat.