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Old 10-02-2014, 12:52 PM   #51
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Originally Posted by arjaybe View Post
I counted the words on what I felt was a "standard" paperback page and got 400. So I figured a 300 page book would be 120,000 words.
8-10 words per line is what you want. I counted in one paperback and got 36 line. So I would guess 300-350 as some kind of standard.
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