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Originally Posted by arjaybe
There's nothing more accurate than the word count.
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Disagree. There’s “a” and there’s “antidisestablishmentarianism”. Yes, I kid, but the general point remains; word count is lower for more complex books of similar length.
My favorite standard is the ADE page count, consistent across books and which helps offset the word length issue. Granted, it doesn’t take into account indices etc. but neither does word count, and at least with ADE page count it’s easy enough to subtract that out.