[jbcohen]

Depends on your definition of a book. Mirriam and Webster defines a book as a - set of written, printed, or blank sheets bound together into a volume. There is nothing in the definition that says anything about who wrote the set of sheets bound together in the volume.

As an undergrad student I took a class in the retoric of argument where we learned how to make arguments and one of the pricinpals that we were taught is to argue from definition, becuase arguments exist in the balance between facts. Mirriam and Webster is generally excepted as the arbitur of definitions, in other words what the dictionary says a word means is what it means and we argue based on that.

The key to this definition is the binding. Is the manuscript that you wrote defario bound together in some maner? Such as with a staple or perhaps a binder clip or paper clip. If it is it qualifies as bound and therefore satisfies the condition for being a book.

I have converted from counting books to counting pages as a way to compensate for the fact that I tend to read really long books which would keep me from meeting my number of books goals to one based on the number of pages per year. I think that 14,000 while it may seem like a lot is a doable goal since 14,000/12 = 1,166 per month * 4 = 4,666.667 and 14,000 - 4,666.667 = 9,333.333 meaning I am more than nine thousand pages over the mark where I need to be at thsi time of the year.