Woo hoo! Some good news while I’m sick! My first passport in 20 years! I promise this one will get used but first, I need to put it away in my safety deposit box along with a couple other important items. Odds favor that the Netherlands will be the first country to be stamped on it. I could’ve sworn there were more pages in my 2003 passport. Let me know what you all recall. Mine has 26 pages in it with the first seven already occupied by State Department instructions, forms, blah blah.
Twenty-eight-page passports have been the norm for decades, though you can request a 52-page passport by ticking a special box on your application. If you renew from abroad, you always get the 52-page versio; we all got 28 pagers when we got our passports in the US, but when the kids renewed in 2022 they automatically got the 52-pager since we renewed at the US Consulate in Amsterdam.