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Originally Posted by Ellimist
Word count really doesn't work.
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Sure it does.
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Originally Posted by Ellimist
"Hey, check out words 2,388 to 2,902!" instead of "check out pages 24, 25 (medium font setting)"
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"Medium"?? Are you kidding?! Your medium or my medium? With your font or with mine? On a big reader or on a small one? With your margins or with mine? With your line spacings or with mine? Etc, ad infinitum.
How about "Hey, check out kwords 6.0-6.3!" (or "Hey, check out hwords 60-63!", which is exactly the same)?
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Originally Posted by Ellimist
"Crap, my bookmarks got deleted... what page was I on? oh wait, no pages, just words... I was on word 5000... maybe..."
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How is "I was on kword 5... maybe.." different from "I was on page 20... maybe.."?
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Originally Posted by Ellimist
So yeah, for a holistic "how large is this book?" then word counts may work, but not for anything else.
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Wrong. They work as well or better than pages in every way I can imagine.