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This is poorly worded enough that I'm not actually sure what you're saying. I have a tentative prediction that you were trying to say something like 'Eliezer has said to some acquaintances and public that the first draft etc.; as he did not request them to maintain the privacy of his statements, I am making it further public since I know many people are interested in the progress of his book.'
Hrm. I would have expected the sequences to have made a good 300 or 400 pages after editing and polishing...
What are sub-books?
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.