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Originally Posted by Donnageddon
Now with ebooks, I am at loss as how to quantize my reading experience. Word count would be helpful, but if they would tell me how much the paper version weighed, that would be much better! For those ebooks with no paper equivalent, they could decide on a standard font and page weight, and then plug it into a formula for extrapolating the weight of the hypothetical paper book.
Literary connoisseurs, such as myself, would find this to be invaluable!
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This clearly would not work as outlined. The "word count to weight" formula would NOT take into account pictures or page breaks.
Obviously what we need is an actual tool, rather than a formula, to give you the ouncage of the book.