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I wish there were an easier way to think about word count vs pages. I know ebooks/ereaders can handle that sort of thing, and some of the book tracking options
by Amorymeltzer 2y ago
I wish there were an easier way to think about word count vs pages. I know ebooks/ereaders can handle that sort of thing, and some of the book tracking options—e.g. StoryGraph—will pull those up for you, but if you're just reading a book it's not easy on its own. And if you're doing a page number goal, it's "important" because: not all pages are created equal.
You can double-count non-fiction or something like that, maybe also double-count things from 100 or 150 years ago or something too, but in the end, why? I love the Cortex idea of the Yearly Theme (<https://www.themesystem.com https://www.themesystem.com>) and they make the good point that "Read 100 books" or "Read 100 pages a day" are bad goals, whereas "Read more" is a good one.
I enjoyed this, and I identify with it a bit, but I'm trying to get away from that mentality a lot. My goal is to read as much as I am happy with, and then a bit more.
- dredmorbius 2y agoA typical typeset page has ~250--300 words per page. The standard rule of thumb is to assume 250. A double-spaced typewritten page is about half that as I recall. 100 pages is about 25,000 words of text. Obsessing over just how many words are on a page isn't terribly productive. 100 pages is very roughly about 90 minutes of reading per day. Commuting is a tad out of fashion these days, but divided between two legs of a commute plus some additional downtime you could fit that into 2--3 sessions per day.