Friday, 20 January 2012

Help!

I am reading a number of books on my Kindle. As a result I no longer have page numbers and, more importantly, I have no total number of pages. The ability to vary the size of the font (and, in my case, use a big one to make it easier on my double vision problem) means the number of 'pages' can vary enormously - even if one could count them. I wanted to add up my number of pages read in 2012 and future years but how to do it. Any suggestions?

Posted by Scriptor Senex at 12:49

9 comments:

  1. Suburban Girl20 January 2012 at 13:49

    Maybe compare the pages to a hard copy? I never thought to add up how many pages I've read in a year, but I am sure it could give you a sense of accomplishment when you get the total.

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  2. ???20 January 2012 at 14:29

    Amazon usually has the number of pages in a book, so I would use that and you personal preference of hard cover or paperback.

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  3. Scriptor Senex20 January 2012 at 14:31

    Thanks Rebecca but that would mean counting every page as I turned it which, even for one book as a samnple, would be betyond my patience. However - Helen has come up with a partial solution on my book blog.

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  4. Mark21 January 2012 at 10:24

    I'd check the paper copy on amazon which nearly always gives a page count in among all the other details.

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  5. Mark21 January 2012 at 10:26

    Okay, now it's going to look like I can't read. When I left that comment there were only two comments showing. I clicked publish, the page refreshed, and in slipped Jededuiah's comment which had the same idea.

    What is going on with Blogger at the moment?

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  6. Scriptor Senex21 January 2012 at 12:56

    The problem, Mark, is that a lot of the Victorian novels I'm reading are not in print (or even visible on out-of-print sites). That was one of the original reasons for getting the Kindle - that the books I wanted to read were not available any other way.

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  7. Mark23 January 2012 at 10:37

    Ah yes I'd forgotten that was one of the reasons for buying the kindle. You could try the British Library's online catalogue. A lot of the books on there list the page numbers. For example, I see you recently read Something Fresh on your kindle without knowing how many pages it is. The British Library seems to think it is 191 pages long.

    This won't work for every book, but given that anything published in the UK should be deposited with the British Library and they have a huge collection of older stuff it should be fairly useful.

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  8. Mark23 January 2012 at 10:39

    Okay, yet again I didn't read properly and see that you do have the page count for Something Fresh. Strangely it seems to vary a lot from the copy in the British Library. I'm guessing that's to do with which edition I looked up. Ah well, it might still be a useful resource.

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  9. Scriptor Senex23 January 2012 at 10:49

    Mark - you didn't misread it - I cheated and went back and added the number of pages after you and Helen suggested that way.
    The British Library could be really useful - thanks. I guess page numbers are pretty irrelevant any way since a word count is what matters (some books being in a large font and others tiny - even varying according to which edition you read) but I just want to do it for fun.

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