Kindles are weird. I just thought “Huh, I’ve been reading this for a long time now, and I’m only 70% through. I wonder how long it is...” So I ran a word count; One Million words. I did some calculations. At the font size I read at, I get about 115 words per page. So 1,040,000 words covers 9043 pages. A paperback I picked off my shelf fits 386 pages in 2.6cm thickness, making a page 0.00674cm thick. So if this were a physical book it would be 9cm wide, 12cm tall, and 62cm thick.
If you put it down it would stand 2 feet tall. With my 70% bookmark six inches off the ground.
Don’t be put off though, this book has easily held my interest so far. It is definitely worth the time to read. But don’t expect to knock it out over a weekend.
Notably “Les Miserable” and “War and Peace” are at approx 531,000 and 563,000 (the lengths of these works vary significantly by translation. W&P can be up to around 590K).
Caveat Lector: This ebook is very long.
Kindles are weird. I just thought “Huh, I’ve been reading this for a long time now, and I’m only 70% through. I wonder how long it is...” So I ran a word count; One Million words. I did some calculations. At the font size I read at, I get about 115 words per page. So 1,040,000 words covers 9043 pages. A paperback I picked off my shelf fits 386 pages in 2.6cm thickness, making a page 0.00674cm thick. So if this were a physical book it would be 9cm wide, 12cm tall, and 62cm thick.
If you put it down it would stand 2 feet tall. With my 70% bookmark six inches off the ground.
Don’t be put off though, this book has easily held my interest so far. It is definitely worth the time to read. But don’t expect to knock it out over a weekend.
One million! That is alot of words.
The following link has the word counts for a bunch of well known Novels and Series. No single book mentioned in the article is even close to a million words. http://electricliterature.com/infographic-word-counts-of-famous-books/
Notably “Les Miserable” and “War and Peace” are at approx 531,000 and 563,000 (the lengths of these works vary significantly by translation. W&P can be up to around 590K).