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Originally Posted by carlobee
yes. in the future, i guess everyone will be saying.. "this book has a word count of xxx and i was able to read it at appproximately xxx days"
weights and pages of books doesn't really have to matter already.
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I rarely hear anyone saying such specific info about their progress through books now, "e" or otherwise. Usually I hear "I'm about halfway through" or something like 'I just barely started' or 'I'm about done' it's really only my wife that bothers to give me page numbers and I'm always quick to point out that I have no idea what that means because I don't know how much stuff fits on a page in whatever book she's reading so...
Maybe percentages will become the defacto way of vaguely indicating progress? My Kindle tells me percent as well as some magical number specific to amazon. At this point I've been using the percentage if I cared to indicate my progress through a book. I've yet to worry about indicating how long the book is in total because frankly, that metric seems unimportant to me. I've read short books in long times because of boringness, and the inverse as well.
It's funny how easily we can get hung up on measurements though.