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Old 08-31-2009, 08:20 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by DrMoze View Post
Interesting musings.

I think a good measure would be word length, in k (thousands). For example, a novella (by SFWoA standards) is between 7.5k and 17.5k words, novella between 17.5k and 40k, and novel greater than 40k. And anything less than 1k is a scribble.
Are there any reader devices that report on word count? That's a feature I'd kind of like to have but neither of my devices seem to have such a function. I think the combination of a word count and a percentage bar would yield up more precision than page numbers in a pbook.
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