Relative Book Length!
HI CHILDREN.
Something that's always bothered me (and I'm sure has bothered you) is when someone asks how long a book is and you have to describe how long it is... kind of... because you don't really know what to compare it to. So you're just like, "It's kinda long. But not really. The text is small/big and it has a lot/a little pages."
That's to ambiguous for me.
SO. I decided to crank some numbers and make something I've come to call 'Relative Book Length'. The idea is to have an 'at a glance' number that you could compare to another book's number and tell how much longer or shorter the book is.
After some thinking about it and testing it, I've come to really like the idea. And just looking at the books I tested it on, it's a actually pretty accurate.
So, what is it?
(((Page-chapter)*adj) + ((chapter*(adj*Header))))/2000
In English: The words on non-chapter-start pages added with the words on chapter-start-pages. Then di…
Something that's always bothered me (and I'm sure has bothered you) is when someone asks how long a book is and you have to describe how long it is... kind of... because you don't really know what to compare it to. So you're just like, "It's kinda long. But not really. The text is small/big and it has a lot/a little pages."
That's to ambiguous for me.
SO. I decided to crank some numbers and make something I've come to call 'Relative Book Length'. The idea is to have an 'at a glance' number that you could compare to another book's number and tell how much longer or shorter the book is.
After some thinking about it and testing it, I've come to really like the idea. And just looking at the books I tested it on, it's a actually pretty accurate.
So, what is it?
(((Page-chapter)*adj) + ((chapter*(adj*Header))))/2000
In English: The words on non-chapter-start pages added with the words on chapter-start-pages. Then di…