Kindle Dots
I used to tear through several books at a time. I'd collect and organize as many as I could get my hands on and keep them in as pristine condition as possible.
My dad loved comics and sci-fi, so I started there. Then, I became interested in pop-science biology and cosmology. In school, I studied computer science and comparative religion. At some point after college, I exhausted the genres I was interested in.
Not having something to read was frustrating, but nothing I picked up would hold my interest. Eventually, I got tired of lugging dozens of boxes of books around and sold them all back to Amazon.
Last Christmas, I got a 3rd generation Kindle from my wife. Suddenly my library was infinite and accessible anywhere. I started reading the Song of Ice and Fire books in preparation for the HBO series and discovered something rather amazing about the Kindle. Because the Kindle allows different font face and size settings, it does keep a page count, rather it shows your relative position in the book with highlighted dots. This means the 1200 page fantasy novel that I would have found daunting and awkward to carry around is suddenly small and portable. The mental weight of all those pages was reduced to "do I want to read the next page."
I read a lot of long books this year, mostly fantasy, some sci-fi and some steampunk. I decided to check Amazon for the actual printed page lengths of these books.
| Title | Pages |
|---|---|
| A Storm of Swords | 1216 |
| A Feast for Crows | 784 |
| A Dance with Dragons | 1040 |
| The Windup Girl | 300 |
| The Half-Made World | 480 |
| The Magicians | 416 |
| The Magician King | 416 |
| The Black Company | 320 |
| Shadows Linger | 319 |
| The White Rose | 320 |
| The Name of the Wind | 672 |
| The Dresden Files: Storm Front | 384 |
| Old Man's War | 320 |
| Wise Man's Fear | 993 |
| The Hunger Games | 384 |
| Catching Fire | 391 |
- Total Pages: 8755
- Average Pages per Day: 23.9