The sequences add up to somewhere over a million words (I haven’t counted precisely, this is a rough guess). For comparison, Lord Of The Rings is 450,000 words. So cutting it to a mere 280,000 in two volumes is quite good going.
Well, what I meant was that I couldn’t see how one could add hundreds of pages of new content to the lengthy sequences and still wind up with something in the 500-600 page range. 2 volumes at 500 or 600 pages each is more plausible, although if the sequences really are >1 million words, I’m not sure about that either.
The sequences add up to somewhere over a million words (I haven’t counted precisely, this is a rough guess). For comparison, Lord Of The Rings is 450,000 words. So cutting it to a mere 280,000 in two volumes is quite good going.
I make it 1056054 words, but that will be over because “wc” will be counting HTML markup as words.
A number!
What do you get if you run it through lynx—dump or similar first?
Well, what I meant was that I couldn’t see how one could add hundreds of pages of new content to the lengthy sequences and still wind up with something in the 500-600 page range. 2 volumes at 500 or 600 pages each is more plausible, although if the sequences really are >1 million words, I’m not sure about that either.