Thread: How big is that e-book anyway?
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Old 09-05-2009, 02:53 PM   #121
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Originally Posted by Teyrnon View Post
What? I've already answered this question. I have no desire to endlessly reiterate myself so I'll try to break it down now. I've given two main reasons 1) Word count provides a useful metric for determining how fast a text can be read. People read words not individual letters.
Yes smaller numerical value is good but you said it provided more information. A specific language have an average world length so for the case were the text is typical the different measurements are equivalent. If the average word length in the text is atypical then it seems to me that the reading speed is more proportional to the character count than to the word count. For very long words you increase the number of fixation points.
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