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Originally Posted by Aleron Ives
It's a good idea, but different genres may yield wildly different WPM. The time it takes to read a page in a thriller novel is going to be much less than in a nonfiction philosophy book, or even something like a cookbook where a single page may be displayed for 30 minutes as you follow the instructions in your kitchen. You should probably have some mechanism to account for this, e.g. a per-book or per-genre metric.
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Those are very good points. Thanks for mentioning this, means we have to think about it a little bit more. Adds some complexity, cookbooks would be an outlier for sure since folks might spend the time it takes to cook on those pages. So at minimum we would need quickly identify if a book is Fiction, Nonfiction , Comic (word count not possible here, would require OCR first at least to get that), Cookbooks. These would be the 4 broad categories I can think of for now. I like the per-genre metric suggestion
Well there goes our initial planned approach
. Thanks for mentioning the above, we will think about the best way to get this done.