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Originally Posted by Dazrin
This is less about e-books vs paper books for me; I have always liked longer books than "average" so am not intimidated by length. Mostly I use a page goal because I found that if I used a book goal I would actively avoid larger books in order to make sure I could meet my goal. I also wondered how to count short stories and novellas. Does a 10 page short story count the same as The Cuckoo's Calling? Does Cryptonomicon count as 2 (or 3) books due to it's length? Etc.
With a page count, I can read whatever I want and not worry about my goal. All pages count the same. (I do try to find a mass-market paperback edition in GoodReads to base the pages on in an attempt to keep page sizes consistent, but it isn't that big of a deal to me.)
Mostly, my post was a follow-up to a conversation a long while back where someone asked where to find page/word counts and I wanted to share since there weren't any good resources for word counts in the previous discussion.
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I can understand your question about the short books, that's why this year I started to count pages rather than the number of books. This year long book or short book makes little difference. I have passed my goal and I am keep on going, my goal was 24k and I am probably going to get to 30k before new years. I will set my goals for 2015 at where I finish up 2014 at.