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Old 01-22-2014, 04:52 PM   #237
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Originally Posted by HomeInMyShoes View Post
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.
And even though e-reading can alleviate a lot of that, publishers still try to get cute and shrink text. Three of my most recent books all had the same double-whammy, in which the body set a base font size of 90% and the paragraphs were set to "small" (instead of the normal "medium")...resulting in Teeny Tiny Text. Granted, I understand that on copyright pages, but that's not how normal pages should work!

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Every method of counting is flawed in some way, read to have fun and my usual goal is just to record what I read.
I'll second that, for sure. A lot of my books come out to about 350 pages in print or about 270 by Adobe's calculations; I use the printed count just because that's what I'm accustomed to. Even then, there's the question of which edition to use; I've seen books that I bought years ago at under 200 pages suddenly bloat up to over 300 with a new printing. (I think it's related to perceived value; people don't want to pay as much for a skinny book, so the publisher bumps the formatting to bulk up the page count.)
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