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Originally Posted by Nyssa
The question being the magic number. I decided to track my books via Goodreads so that I wouldn't have to remember to write everything down, but there isn't really a way to separate short stories from full novels; they all get an equal count.
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That does make things trickier. Maybe the "X pages challenge" people have the more sensible approach, going by words read* rather than format length.
The optimal solution would seem to be to read 100 obviously long-enough-to-be-books, and after that how to weigh in the shorter stuff will be a moot point.
Or maybe just use the locations/pages count on one's reader and compare the numbers for the short stories to those of known 150 page+ books.
"Hmm... This novella is 1000 locations/80 pages on the 3rd size font setting. Most of my Agatha Christies are about 2250 locations/175 pages long. I guess I'll count this as half a book, and that set of 400 location 'what happened next' bonus epilogues from that fantasy series as 1/5th each."
* Or maybe they're fallen prey to quibbling over the definition of an e-reader "page", especially if the font size is set really large.