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Originally Posted by Teyrnon
Well, the basic unit of language is arguably the word. Sure words are different lengths but it does average out. Character count isn't reflective of the language nor does it really give a good idea of speed. Speed readers in particular tend to read words as discrete entities whether that word is 1 character long or 9 the word is read at the same speed. Character count tells me nothing useful about the text, word count atleast gives me an idea of how long it is in meaningful units of language.
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What extra information does word count give you that is not available in character count? I mean you have to know what language the text is in both cases and what properties this language have. And if you know this the different measurements seems equivalent to me.
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By the way, your 1K=1 Page figure seems a little odd. 1K in English works out to about 150 words. That's a really tiny page. If I'm not mistaken the average pocket size paperback is about 500 words to a page.
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Taking a random book and counting characters and lines I got around 60 characters per line and 35 lines per page. About 2K but then you have to reduce this a bit since not all lines are full. So neared 1K then 3K (500 word).