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Originally Posted by Katsunami
Hm... fishyness.
I used Del Rey paperbacks to count the number of characters on a page. They use around 2400.
Obviously, the Count Pages plugin does not take images, whitespace or margins into account. It just counts characters, assuming the book is a huge wall of text. Obviously, the e-book will therefore have somewhat less "pages" than the paperback version.
Now, to compare... I have a series of books that is almost 12.000 pages in paper. However, with my method of counting, it's 8,326 pages in e-book form.
It means that, if reading these books in paper, I'd be reading 1.34x the number of extra pages compared to the e-book version.
So, reading 30 "pages" an hour on my Kindle compares to reading 40 pages an hour in paper. 400 words per page, 40 pages, makes 16.000 words per hour, or 267 wpm. It's closer to the outcome of the test, but they're still far apart.
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...And this line of reasoning only holds true for books that have a large number of images. Whitespace and margins shouldn't matter, really--if there is 2400 characters on a typical page in a paperback, then it should be the same, since there are margins and whitespace in a paperback, too. A large number of images would make a difference, of course.
Shari