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Need help finding the length of specific books?
Topic Started: Jan 13 2011, 09:01 AM (280 Views)
jodi
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This is driving me nuts. I know I found a website where you could plug the name of a famous novel in, and get either the number of pages, or the word count. I can't seem to find it again... Anybody know of one?
:) Jodi
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George K
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Amazon supplies that information (the number of pages), iirc.

Check it out:

Hardcover: 304 pages
Publisher: Harper; First Edition/First Printing edition (November 23, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0062010964
ISBN-13: 978-0062010964
Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.6 x 1.2 inches

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sue
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every properly catalogued book has that information. page numbers, dimension, etc. :nerd: (not word count though, we don't do that)
Edited by sue, Jan 13 2011, 09:13 AM.
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Aqua Letifer
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jodi
Jan 13 2011, 09:01 AM
This is driving me nuts. I know I found a website where you could plug the name of a famous novel in, and get either the number of pages, or the word count. I can't seem to find it again... Anybody know of one?
Be careful about the number of pages. George is right, Amazon usually has that information (or AbeBooks), but you have to make sure you're looking at the specific publication year you want. There's a difference between hardcovers, paperbacks, trade paperbacks, reissues, etc.
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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sue
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Aqua Letifer
Jan 13 2011, 09:13 AM
jodi
Jan 13 2011, 09:01 AM
This is driving me nuts. I know I found a website where you could plug the name of a famous novel in, and get either the number of pages, or the word count. I can't seem to find it again... Anybody know of one?
Be careful about the number of pages. George is right, Amazon usually has that information (or AbeBooks), but you have to make sure you're looking at the specific publication year you want. There's a difference between hardcovers, paperbacks, trade paperbacks, reissues, etc.
use the ISBN no. (easily found on back of books) to track specific info re that edition.
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Aqua Letifer
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sue
Jan 13 2011, 09:15 AM
use the ISBN no. (easily found on back of books) to track specific info re that edition.
What are you a librarian or something? ISBN 10 or 13 then, if youse so smart?

(No seriously, I don't understand the difference at all.)
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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jodi
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This was much easier than Amazon - this page had a place to type the title, and then it just gave you the pages (I don't need exact - just ballpark...)
:) Jodi
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sue
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Aqua Letifer
Jan 13 2011, 09:25 AM
sue
Jan 13 2011, 09:15 AM
use the ISBN no. (easily found on back of books) to track specific info re that edition.
What are you a librarian or something? ISBN 10 or 13 then, if youse so smart?

(No seriously, I don't understand the difference at all.)
You can search either one. Since 2007 they've started using the 13 code. Just has a bit more information.
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Qaanaaq-Liaaq
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This is what I've noticed:

If different publishers publish the same book, for example a classic, then each publisher will have a different page count. This is because the page size (pocket, hard cover, etc.), font size, lines per inch, margin size, and the inclusion of a preface or forward, etc. can vary.

This, I don’t know: If a novel is published by different publishers, will they all have the same ISBN no. or will each publisher have its own ISBN no.?

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Aqua Letifer
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sue
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Qaanaaq-Liaaq
Jan 13 2011, 09:59 AM
This, I don’t know: If a novel is published by different publishers, will they all have the same ISBN no. or will each publisher have its own ISBN no.?

Aqua is correct. ISBN numbers are specific to that very edition that's in your hands, that publisher, that printing.
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Chris Aher
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Hi Jodi,

Try this: http://www.renlearn.com/store/quiz_home.asp

Supposedly there is a text statistics function on Amazon that does this but I haven't been able to find it.

Chris
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