So how long should a book be?

[Ray McCarthy]

50K YA
120K Adult?

1000K words?

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20150507-the-never-ending-stories

A good candidate for eInk based Readers?

Nothing compares to the 17th Century French novel Artamène. The tale of a shepherd’s son who’s really a Persian prince, its 2 million or so words (the average 280-pager contains just 80,000) fill 13,095 pages. Originally credited to Georges de Scudéry, these days it’s more commonly attributed to his sister, Madeleine.

At least on eInk you can read it on one charge.

Funny:

She supported him while he wrote, and so it seemed only fair that he let her type the letter ‘d’ of the ‘The End’ before they went off to the pub to clebrate[sic]. When finished copies arrived, however, the words had been cut. Turns out it’s not house style.

 

[Jo Zebedee]

50K YA
120K Adult?

1000K words?

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20150507-the-never-ending-stories

A good candidate for eInk based Readers?

At least on eInk you can read it on one charge.

Hold on! @HareBrain ! Come see.

 

[HareBrain]

Yay!

 

[Randy M.]

As long as it needs to be; no longer, no shorter.

Naturally, the writer and the reader may disagree on what constitutes "just right".


Randy M.

 

[Fishbowl Helmet]

Yikes. I have a hard time finishing anything longer than 80-90k. The 120k behemoths make me tired just thinking about them. But 2 million? Just straight up f*ck that.