People read today’s front pages outside the Newseum. Photo by Andrew Wiseman.

Thinking about picking up a newspaper this afternoon? Good luck. Despite producing an extra 35,000 copies, your chances of finding an edition of the Washington Post — or any other newspaper, for that matter — are probably slim to none at this point. (Don’t worry, you’ll be able to scour eBay for laughably overpriced copies very, very soon.)

Suffice it to say, having the President deliver one of the biggest news flashes in the last decade shortly before midnight on a Sunday evening doesn’t exactly fit into the normal newspaper workflow. How much were local newspapers freaking out last night? Well, the local paper of record apparently extended its deadline until 2 a.m., “hours” after the normal deadline. (Understandable — check out the sweeping overhaul that the New York Times’ front page received last night after President Obama confirmed bin Laden was dead.)

Was the work worth it? Well, yeah — not only were most paper copies of newspapers swept up rapidly this morning, people were so anxious to see the headlines from around the world, they crashed the Newseum’s online repository of front pages. (“[P]rocessing more than 2,800 requests per second”? Yup, that’ll do it.) So if you want to check out today’s headlines, you’re probably better off heading down to the Newseum in person. A fairly steady crowd has been stopping by the museum’s 555 Pennsylvania Avenue NW location but, as DCist’s Andrew Wiseman notes, they probably aren’t checking out papers from Providence, Rhode Island, Casper, Wyoming and Charleston, West Virginia — those are the only papers collected by the museum not to feature a bin Laden story on their front pages.