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Originally Posted by Teyrnon
You've made some excellent points and I'm forced to amend my position somewhat. Character counts would be useful.
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It's very mature of you to say that.
Back in the day when I first started thinking about "problems" with digital texts I remember that I first of all thought about word numbers(=counts) as the solution for most problems. After considering lots of different scenarios (e.g., how referencing a part of a digital text affects different versions of the same text, including different translations), I actually came to the conclusion that word numbers/counts fall inbetween what seems to be best. Character counts seem to be best for lengths and speeds, whereas a combination of chapter and paragraph numbers seem to work best for references. Also, in practice I'm quite fond of char-% (i.e., in the range 0-100 regardless of the size) for novels, because it seems to give a decent estimate of where in the
story I am. So, after starting from
"word counts" I ended up pretty much everywhere but.
