[Michlib-l] Summer Reading: how to count unpublished stories

[Jocelyn Baldwin Levin]

According to
http://www.megcabot.com/about-meg-cabot/frequently-asked-questions-getting-published/
,

"How many words are there to a page? It depends on the font you are using,
of course, but in general, 250-300 words per page. Therefore, a 55,000 word
book should be about 200 manuscript pages. A 100,000 word book would be
about 400. Editors like 12 point font."

So, you could have them do a quick word count (easy to do by pasting in
Microsoft Word) and count one page for every 250 words.

~Jocelyn Levin, MLIS


Jocelyn (Baldwin) Levin, MLIS
jmb.mlis at gmail.com

On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 12:08 PM, Linda Smith <lsmith at tadl.org> wrote:

> I have our teens report how many hours they read. That way slower readers
> can compete with faster readers and manga readers don't get any more credit
> than someone reading Dante's Inferno. This also helps with the online fan
> fiction and original self published titles, a huge source of reading for
> the teens at my library.
>
> Linda Smith
> Teen Services Coordinator
>    Traverse Area District Library
>    610 Woodmere Ave.
>    Traverse City MI, 49686
>    www.tadl.org
>    231-932-8500 ext. 270
>
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 3:06 PM, Laura Orlowski <camden at monroe.lib.mi.us>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all;
>>
>> In an attempt to keep our patrons (especially teens) into reading this
>> summer, we are allowing all formats of reading (books, magazines, ebooks,
>> audiobooks, etc.).  Because we are allowing so many different formats to be
>> used, we chose to go with page counts for all ages (seems to be the fairest
>> way to track).  For online ebooks and audiobooks, we typically use the
>> standard hardcover page count for those titles.
>>
>> One of my teen patrons asked if they could count a book they are reading
>> online that is from a site for writers to "self publish".  Since these
>> titles do not have a page count available, any suggestions as to how we can
>> count these stories?  I don't want to tell our readers that they can't use
>> these titles - the whole point of summer reading is to get
>> kids/teens/adults reading for the fun of it.
>>
>> Any thoughts/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>> Thanks,
>> -Laura Orlowski, director
>> Camden Twp. Library
>> camden at monroe.lib.mi.us
>>
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