Brief, but comprehensive in expression

I'd love to have known the authors of my 1,258-page Concise Oxford Dictionary. I imagine a group of word-nerds sitting around in whatever you sat around in in 1911 expressing themselves in as few words as possible; like their definition of concise: brief, but comprehensive in expression. You can't get 'conciser' than that.

I discovered my love for this book after a week in the mountains with no internet. And I also discovered that I have a lot of apologies to make to the students I've laughed at for what I thought were made-up words.

What would you think if you heard someone say disremember? I'd have thought it was a cute and  clever way to get their point across had they disremembered the word forget. Instead, it's a header (a word I've apparently invented because I've just looked it up and it's not there. Just how does one find the name for the words at the top of each page in a dictionary when there's no internet?).

I'd set a goal this year to publish 36 posts, but on the eve of New Year's Eve I 'unsadly' accepted my failure. It's the fault of my new favorite book that distracted me until New Year's Eve morning. If I fall asleep tonight before the ball falls will they believe me when I say I was up til dawn reading the dictionary? It sounds as believable as those folks on the train pretending to enjoy books instead of their phones. Just what will they think of the lady on the vaporetto reading her 3 lb. wordbook (my favorite new word for dictionary)?