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Originally Posted by msundman
You're right, 1 kchar pages are very small. E.g., my Ender's Game pocket is 380 pages (and the pages are quite small) and has 453 kchars (and 107 kwords). I still think it's close enough, though. A 500 kchar book would be 500 very small pages or 250 large(ish) pages. No matter which of the page sizes you want to go with the conversion between it and kchars is very easy to do in your head.
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Why? Pages have no real usefulness here. It's not helpful to convert to pages which are a rather subjective and imprecise means of referencing the relative size of a text. Converting to word count would be more useful and that's not something I care to do in my head every time I'm trying to pick a book to be read in an alloted time frame.
Now, let me ask. what does character count tell you that's so useful? If it's because it's so easy to convert to pages I don't see that as a selling point for reasons already given earlier in this thread.