That would be annoying, on both counts. At least the first was corrected.
I can't think of the other books I've wondered about off the top of my head now, but I know there's been a good amount and if any others come to me I'll post them.
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Originally Posted by AnemicOak
If Mary Poppins is really only the 38,085 words this page says it is then 4ish hours doesn't seem off. Hard to go by page count, especially with a children's book, due to variations in font and margin sizes, illustrations, etc. |
Word counts would be good to go by for consistency but I'm not sure if there's a site that lists that for every book? What I've been doing for consistency the last few years is going to Goodreads, looking at the 'Editions' of a book and looking at the various page counts listed to get a general idea to account for as you say the variations. For instance here's the page for editions of Mary Poppins:
https://www.goodreads.com/work/editi...8-mary-poppins
209 pages, 210 pages, 192 pages, 207 pages, 195 pages and so on in different editions, so I just generalised to around 200 pages.