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[alexseanchai]

anarchycox:

Petition for ao3 to have the feature that you can click on word count and it will tell you how many pages that would be in a published novel so that you can properly assess the stupid decision you are about to make at 11:45pm

alexseanchai:

I bet making that userscript wouldn’t be difficult

like there’s one for calculating the kudos:hits ratio and displaying that next to or instead of the hit count, so making one to divide the word count by 250, round up to the nearest integer, and display the resulting page count next to the word count definitely sounds doable

alexseanchai five minutes later:

say how does one code a tampermonkey script

three hours after that:



[image: an AO3 screenshot of my shiny new AO3: Page Count script in action. The Ladybugs and the Bees is 507 pages long, When Duty and Desire Meet is 232 pages so far, and heartstrings is 174 pages. also visibly active on this page: the AO3: Kudosed and seen history and AO3: Kudos/hits ratio scripts by Min.]

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more that you may (both) know:

[redbird]

And again for publishing purposes, people who say than something is X number of pages long may be looking at MS Word layout (in which case, their choices of font size etc. are crucial), and may be using "pages" of 200, 225, or 250 words. That matters if you're hiring/being hired as an editor -- if one person's "page" is 250 words, and the other's is 200, you'll come up with different ideas of how long it will take to edit or proofread 200 pages, and what to charge for it.

Re: more that you may (both) know:

[alexseanchai]

I put 350 in as the default words-per-page for calculation purposes, but anyone who installs the script can edit their copy to use whatever number they like.