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Cinisajoy · 12-13-2015, 02:40 PM

Ok I can think of a book that was nearly 300 pages long and the word count was way less than 10,000 words.
I saw a book recently that the book was 1000 pages long with a 6 point font. That word count is 645,000.
I just looked that one up.

12-13-2015, 02:40 PM	#23
Cinisajoy Just a Yellow Smiley. Posts: 19,161 Karma: 83862859 Join Date: Jul 2015 Location: Texas Device: K4, K5, fire, kobo, galaxy	Ok I can think of a book that was nearly 300 pages long and the word count was way less than 10,000 words. I saw a book recently that the book was 1000 pages long with a 6 point font. That word count is 645,000. I just looked that one up.