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You can get page counts from OpenLibrary and word counts from the linked editions on Internet Archive. Of course the latter is only going to be for public domain editions and if you are focused on review sentiment (as a proxy for purchase desirability?), you are probably more interested in modern non-public domain editions. The other drawback to IA word counts is that you'll need to download the full text to get them, but if you pull down a compressed text-only file, it shouldshouldn't be too bad.

Here's the chain of links you need to follow:

Counting words is as simple as:

curl https://ia600308.us.archive.org/9/items/blaclornadooneromanc00rich/blaclornadooneromanc00rich_djvu.txt | wc
  34410  280815 1488652

So this edition of Lorna Doone is 687 pages with (approximately) 280K words. The word count is done over OCR'd text, so it will not be 100% accurate, but it should be close enough for this type of project.

You can get page counts from OpenLibrary and word counts from the linked editions on Internet Archive. Of course the latter is only going to be for public domain editions and if you are focused on review sentiment (as a proxy for purchase desirability?), you are probably more interested in modern non-public domain editions. The other drawback to IA word counts is that you'll need to download the full text to get them, but if you pull down a compressed text-only file, it should be too bad.

Here's the chain of links you need to follow:

Counting words is as simple as:

curl https://ia600308.us.archive.org/9/items/blaclornadooneromanc00rich/blaclornadooneromanc00rich_djvu.txt | wc
  34410  280815 1488652

So this edition of Lorna Doone is 687 pages with (approximately) 280K words. The word count is done over OCR'd text, so it will not be 100% accurate, but it should be close enough for this type of project.

You can get page counts from OpenLibrary and word counts from the linked editions on Internet Archive. Of course the latter is only going to be for public domain editions and if you are focused on review sentiment (as a proxy for purchase desirability?), you are probably more interested in modern non-public domain editions. The other drawback to IA word counts is that you'll need to download the full text to get them, but if you pull down a compressed text-only file, it shouldn't be too bad.

Here's the chain of links you need to follow:

Counting words is as simple as:

curl https://ia600308.us.archive.org/9/items/blaclornadooneromanc00rich/blaclornadooneromanc00rich_djvu.txt | wc
  34410  280815 1488652

So this edition of Lorna Doone is 687 pages with (approximately) 280K words. The word count is done over OCR'd text, so it will not be 100% accurate, but it should be close enough for this type of project.

Source Link
Tom Morris
Tom Morris
  • 1k
  • 6
  • 13

You can get page counts from OpenLibrary and word counts from the linked editions on Internet Archive. Of course the latter is only going to be for public domain editions and if you are focused on review sentiment (as a proxy for purchase desirability?), you are probably more interested in modern non-public domain editions. The other drawback to IA word counts is that you'll need to download the full text to get them, but if you pull down a compressed text-only file, it should be too bad.

Here's the chain of links you need to follow:

Counting words is as simple as:

curl https://ia600308.us.archive.org/9/items/blaclornadooneromanc00rich/blaclornadooneromanc00rich_djvu.txt | wc
  34410  280815 1488652

So this edition of Lorna Doone is 687 pages with (approximately) 280K words. The word count is done over OCR'd text, so it will not be 100% accurate, but it should be close enough for this type of project.