A note on e-books

[kailara]

So after burning through _Ghost Story_ (finished it Monday evening), I've been lazily drifting through an e-copy of John Scalzi's _The God Engines_ that I picked up for the Pad months ago. One of the interesting, to me at least, things about digital books is that the page count adjusts based on the font size (obviously) and so a book that I knew

Comments

[ashtoreth]

I expect that they'll change to word-count requirements rather than page-count.

[kailara]

Possible, though that has the complication of being difficult to establish for dead-tree editions (and I'm not sure how I'd find it easily in my e-books either).

Thinking about it a little further, I suppose that probably teachers will just accept that there's always been some differences in page length from print edition to print edition, and that it's still better than just "Read X books. Calvin and Hobbes compilations don't count."

[hawkfist]

...but should...

[kailara]

I'm sure teachers don't want their students getting any more ideas. :)

I'd love to see a college course dedicated to the art and writing of Calvin and Hobbes though.

[egryphon]

Likely they'll use a standard font size to determine page count.

[eremon_lass]

Over on GoodReads they tally your book and page counts for the year for you, and I've noticed that if I list the book as being the Kindle Edition, then it doesn't seem to increase the total page count, just the total book count.

[kailara]

So their solution is to basically say "you read a book but it had no pages"? :)

I'll have to check out GoodReads. I've been keeping my own log of books read through private LJ posts for a while now, but it might be nice to have an alternative.

[hawkfist]

I'm on there somewhere; I've never been one for assembling lists of my tastes, I'd rather find out others' and then recommend possibilities based on their likes and dislikes.

Once a bookseller, always a bookseller, I guess...

[kailara]

That sort of thing goes both ways though...eventually you're bound to come across something that another person has read that gets into your queue, and it keeps you up on what people are reading when you need suggestions or leads for yourself as well.