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Originally Posted by bill_mchale
As for paper back books, you have to remember that the paperback book size is a compromise on a lot of factors.. and I expect that storage versus visibility played a bigger role in the size of mass market paperbacks than how easy they were to read.
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Well, an old rule of thumb for optimal readability is that a line should be around 60 characters (8-10 words). And that is what the random mass market paperback I just checked had.