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Interesting discussion. I read a lot of fanfic, which on most modern archives is tagged with word count. (Older ones often tag with filesize, which is how I know that 40kb of text is roughly 7000 words.) I'd started paying attention to word counts when I first looked at Fictionwise; the multiformat books are described with word counts.
Today, I'm a bit miffed at any ebook store that doesn't have word count or filesize listed--what, I'm supposed to fork over $5 without knowing if this is a short novella or a mega-epic novel?
I regularly decide what to read for the day based on length. I don't know any way to sort my unread stack by length (I find Calibre rather baffling, and I haven't figured out how to not have it make annoying extra folders I keep tripping over, and anyway the books on my readers don't show length), but I regularly open them, check the page count in the reader, and decide if I'm up for that at the moment.
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