Quote:Page counts were done by finding the number of words per line in a book (taken by counting words in twelve line samples and getting an average), then counting lines in the book and multiplying by the number of words per line to get a fair estimate of how many words are in the book. Etexts available online were pasted into a word editing program that displays how many words are in the document. Books vary as to how many words are on an average page, ranging from 250 to 500, but 320-360 was most common, and since An Island Story uses about 320 words per page and we know Charlotte Mason used that book in her schools and wrote how many pages of that book she used in various Forms, we used a uniform 320 words per page. By dividing the total estimated words of a book by 320, we were able to get uniform page numbers.
Imagining that every AO book could be printed with the same typeface and size of An Island Story, this is what AO's page count would be.
The Guerber books are online, so I would have used the online text, pasted it into Word, gotten a total word count, and divided by 320 to get a page count.
Dorothy Mills' Ancient Greeks is online, Ancient Romans is also online at archive.org; do you want me to do this type of page count for it so you can compare them?
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