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Originally Posted by shalym
Ah...sorry then--I didn't realize that. So I guess it's only useful as a relative measurement for while you're reading then, correct? So that you can see something like "page 200 of 550" or something like that? It would appear that it is not much good if you are trying to compare it to the paper version of the book.
Shari
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Yes, correct. I just counted the characters on a few pages in different Del Rey books (I had a lot of them, as they print a lot of Fantasy), took the average, and came close to 2400, so I set the Count Pages to that number.
That way, I get e-books with a "normal" page count, which is quite close to a Del Rey paperback; normally within +/- 10%. A 500 page paperback will become something like a 450-500 page e-book. (I don't like the page counting many e-readers do. Some novella's that are 120 pages in paper, become behemoth "books" of 750 pages... that's the reason why I rely on the Count Pages plugin.)
When counting all the books the same way, and a 350 "page" e-book will take me around 8 hours to read, I know that a 700 "page" e-book will take me around 16 hours. Obviously, the page numbers can tell you where you are in a book, but you can also envision the "thickness" of one book compared to another, and to some extent, to a paperback.
I just don't like it if I'm thinking "I want a quick read between these two books", and then inadvertently pick a book that would be 1000 pages long in paper.