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Originally Posted by sun surfer
I've realised in the last year or so that deciding how to count pages for reading goals can be quite a philosophical task. If one reads a book that is 600 pages, is it really 600 pages? What if another version of it comes to 400 pages because of a different paper or font size or e-reader counting scheme, yet they are each the exact same amount of words? If a book is sitting in a forest and no one is around to count its pages, does it have a page count?
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By that logic you could write same book on a stone, so how many stone tablets would you need? Or you could write it in parchment. How many parchments would you need?
Cut the complicating and just input the edition you're reading. That will suffice.
Until Goodreads decides to count words number as part of their statistics (which will be never) page count is the best you can do.