Results Time!
1:30-2:30 pages 95-129 End of week 4
3:05-4:10 pages 129-159 End of week 5
2 hours 5 minutes, 64 pages, and how many characters?
I did open the book walker app to start reading a little more before writing this but I’m going to call it done for the results. I know we’re not required to do character counts but I was curious and did math.
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Based on the screenshot I took of page 150 today while reading, an all text page has ~40 characters vertically in each line and 12 lines on each page. 480 characters in a page. Since not every line goes the entire page I rounded the total down by around 1/6 to get an even ~400 characters if the page is “full” of text. Many pages in this book have blueprints or spacing issues that result in only half of a page having text. I have further rounded down by a 1/3 margin to account for these half pages. ~266 characters in a page or ~250 for a nice even number. This means my reading 64 pages today lead to a total of ~16,000 characters read. That number feels insanely high.
I’ve been a little afraid of approaching visual novels because character counts seem high to me, but if I can read 16,000 in a couple hours and still feel like I could have read more today then my initial reaction to the big number is misleading and thousands of characters actually isn’t that much to get through. I’m still not a great or fast reader but if I can do 8,000 characters in an hour when I’m focused and mostly understand what I’m reading then that feels impressive to me. Good job brain 
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Thanks again @taiyousea for doing these threads. It’s a nice seasonal challenge and it gave me an excuse to visit my downtown library which was nice. I think I’m the last straggler unless I’ve missed people so I’ll edit my results into the tables soon. See everyone when it’s the dark and cold part of the year. 