Thread: Page Numbers, Percentage, or nothing at all
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Old 10-10-2019, 11:44 AM   #142
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Originally Posted by rcentros View Post
Except page counts have been the standard since printed books were printed and people know the relative length of a 500 page book when compared to a 200 page book (for example).
Nope. Take a look at one of the oldest and certainly the most well-known printed books in history: The Gutenberg Bible. There are several different versions of it with different numbers of lines per page thus different page counts.

The publishing standard is word counts.
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