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Originally Posted by Katsunami
That's why I decided to use page count as a goal. A book can be 200 pages, but it can also be 600 or 1200. Setting a number of books as a goal invites to read shorter books to meet the goal more easily. Page count does not have that problem.
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I am doing a page count for the first time this year, but I haven't set a target - just doing it out of curiosity. I agree with what HIMS says below about any method of counting being flawed in some way.
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Originally Posted by HomeInMyShoes
Read shorter books. 
I purposely chose shorter books when I could this year for my challenge because I knew it would be crazy enough. I could probably never read seventy 600 page books in a year as my best year for pages is around 25,000 pages.
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. I have a 440 page book I've probably spent ten hours reading to only get halfway through it so far. While I've got another 400 page book that only took ten hours to read the whole thing.
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'm not hung up about the length of the books I read, as I do feel it averages out. The first book I read in 2011, for example, was over 1400 pages (The Count of Monte Cristo), but I still ended the year having read 110 books, the most since I started these challenges.