Like, there’s no universal typeset or size to books, right? How chapter titles are formatted can affect the page numbers, as can potential illustrations, dedications, acknowledgements, etc etc. If you take 2 different books with roughly the same amount of pages but one could take way longer to read than the other. Eg: The Blood of Olympus by Rick Riordan and Fairy Tale by Stephen King are the exact same amount of pages but Fairy Tale takes nearly twice as long to read. So far the only thing I can think of is to go by audiobook length but even that can’t really be unified because different actors are going to read with different inflections and pacing.
Basically I just want to know what’s truly the longest book I’ve ever read 🤣
by cyclonecasey
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Word count.
What about word count?
Although the one drawback is complexity, Descartes will take longer to read than Harry Potter, word for word, cause the ideas are more complex
Word count if you’re being scientific about it. But usually I’ll pick up a book, go and look at the numbers of pages, and then glance at the size of the type and density of the lines on the page and that gives me a general feel for it.
Count the number of words on a typical page, multiply by pagecount, subtract maybe 5% to account for chapter beginnings/ends, voila