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Old 06-03-2015, 08:56 AM   #6
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Originally Posted by Tanjamuse View Post
What would be the best way to calculate the accurate book length?

Word Count? Page Count? Or yet another option?
If the reason you are concerned about "length" is that you want to judge how much reading is involved then the only measure of any real use is word count.

Page count is useless as there is no fixed standard for the number of words on a page in printed books and ebooks don't have pages. Physical size of the file for an ebook is also a poor judge, no better than judging a printed book by its weight. There are too many things that add to file size (e.g. fonts, CSS code, images, ...) that add to the size but don't alter the amount of reading involved.
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