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Originally Posted by HomeInMyShoes
Pages are deceptive as well. I've had 200 page books take longer than 400 page books. It depends on font size, spacing, and actual difficulty of the text.
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Difficulty, true enough, but if you use Calibre and Count Pages, you can set the plugin to count characters, so font sizes and spacing don't have any effect anymore. I've found 2400 characters to be a good match to create "paperback sized" e-books. (Del Rey and Ballantine average about 2400 characters a page in the paperbacks I have from them, as does Wizards of the Coast.)
If the paperback has a large whitespace when starting a new chapter, or many illustrations, it could be a bit "thicker" than the e-book, because Count Pages by character obviously ignores whitespace and illustrations.