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I read through this whole thread hoping that somebody else would ask what a "novelette" is, so I wouldn't have to appear dumb and ask myself. I thought I understand "short story", "novel", and maybe "novella". But now that I've seen this new word (for me) "novelette" I'm back to ground zero. Is a novelette longer or shorter than a novella? I'm assuming it's on the short story side of a novel, and not the tome side.
Too many ways to describe the length of a book. I wish they'd just come up with a standard, albeit arbitrary, definition of the number of words on a "page", and then advertise book lengths based on the number of these agreed upon "pages". Similar to a "mile". Most people have no idea where the definition of that came from, and it doesn't relate to anything concrete in their world (nor do they care if it does or doesn't), but they have a reasonable understanding of what that distance means and can comprehend and make use of what, e.g., "20 miles from here" means.
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