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Originally Posted by MGlitch
His argument is that since that this number shifts. Despite the fact that anything related to it also shifts by an equal amount. Thus somehow making it impossible to have a correlation to physical books.
What I find odd is the need to compare book lengths. If a story is good at 20 pages/screens/whatever the equivalent is in bytes for ADE/etc it’s good. If a story is bad in 500 of the same it’s bad. I could almost understand it if someone was switching between physical and ebook for the same book except as I’ve gone on about they’re different media akin to audio books. People doing this will have to adjust.
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As mentioned in another post, there's many reasons why gauging the length of a book is important to me. Probably the biggest reason is that I want to emulate the experience of reading a printed book as much as possible. Since eBooks don't have visual heft and size, the only way I can gauge their length is via a consistent page numbering scheme that relatively correlates to a printed book. It's really that simple. It may not be important to you, but it is to me.
(So much for getting out of this thread.)