Thread: How big is that e-book anyway?
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Old 09-02-2009, 04:27 PM   #90
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Originally Posted by HappyMartin View Post
And one day in the future someone will be reading a book and will wonder. "What the hell is a page and why is my book measured in them?" A bit like cars and horsepower.

It might not be accurate but I use file size as a guide. I like books of around a MB.
Either that... or this fad of pretending page numbers are not fundamentally useful constructs will pass.

I'm no more of a futurist than you though, so we'll just have to wait and see.

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