ciphergoth comments on Book Recommendations - Less Wrong

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Comment author: David_Gerard 22 December 2010 12:01:26PM 1 point [-]

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.

Comment author: ciphergoth 23 December 2010 02:29:35PM 4 points [-]

I make it 1056054 words, but that will be over because "wc" will be counting HTML markup as words.

Comment author: David_Gerard 23 December 2010 04:59:50PM 1 point [-]

A number!

What do you get if you run it through lynx --dump or similar first?