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The nice thing about a short text is that you can count characters by eye. If you go for an entire book, then you have to figure out how to count the text characters in it. It takes work to extract only the text from most ebook formats, and non-English languages will need more than one byte per character, so you can't just use the file size to roughly count characters. It is interesting because there are so many other problems to solve before you can even get down to determining relative length.
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