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Originally Posted by RWood
... as others have noted the books tend to be longer today than they were a while back.
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I've really noticed this when unpacking some of my older books. I have a marvelous collection of science fiction from 1960-1980, and the books are quite a bit thinner than today's novels. The print is smaller, which means more words per page, but also the stories are just shorter. We had a discussion in another thread about whether the trend to longer books was good or bad. Regardless, because of the great discrepancy in the size of books and wanting to be able to make valid comparisons from year to year, I started keeping a record not only of the books that I complete, but also the number of pages read. For electronic books, I use the pagecount from the most recent edition of the book (mass market paperback if available).