>> On 12/21/10 at 11:16 AM, Eric Lease Morgan <emorgan_at_ND.EDU> wrote in part:
>
> A longer book is not necessarily, but the length of a book (or just about
> any other bibliographic item) is directly related to the amount of time a
> person can spend "consuming" it. Length is directly related other expenses a
> person needs to spend in order to use the item effectively.
Effective is probably subjective as well; I find a "good" index to be directly related to effective use. I think word count is just word count; people can make of it what they wish. (Better, or Kakon, or somewhere else on the continuum.)
Daniel
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