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10079458

Anonymous Wed Sep 27 22:14:40 2017 No.10079458 [Reply] [Original]

"It's a very dense book"
>less than 300 pages
>sometimes even less than 200

What did they mean by this?

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 27 22:16:43 2017 No.10079463 >>10079458 It means that even though it's short, the book will take you as long as a typical doorstopper to finish if you truly care about understanding it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 27 22:18:26 2017 No.10079472 >thinks formal qualities are identical to content

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 27 22:26:44 2017 No.10079502 "it's a very deep hole" >less than 30 feet wide >sometimes less than 20 what did they mean by this?

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 27 22:28:49 2017 No.10079510 >>10079458 Is this bait or do you not know how density works

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 27 22:30:51 2017 No.10079518 A short amount of text can be dense. I'm not sure what the issue is.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 27 22:36:55 2017 No.10079534 >>10079458 >>10079502 I knew you'd say that.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 27 22:42:20 2017 No.10079548 File: 71 KB, 641x723, 1506457642236[1].png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10079472 >>10079463 >>10079510 >>10079518 >T. Word count is the only measurement of book density.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 27 22:43:40 2017 No.10079549 >>10079458 Density is a measure of mass over volume, not a measure of mass. A book is dense if it has a lot of material relative to its size, not if it's big.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 27 22:45:57 2017 No.10079557 >>10079548 Your portrait is hideous, but it does explain your confusion.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 27 23:48:13 2017 No.10079765 3pt font and .5 cm margins, and weighs 40 pounds

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 27 23:53:37 2017 No.10079793 >>10079548 Density is how much of something there is in a given space, friend. Word count would be a measurement of length. Maybe should have learned about things other than english lit eh?

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 28 01:12:03 2017 No.10080064 File: 36 KB, 357x279, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10079765 Is the Book of Mormon the densest book of all time?

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 28 02:06:40 2017 No.10080202 >>10079458 It's like purple prose, only the writing is good.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 28 02:13:10 2017 No.10080221 Density != Volume

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 28 03:16:07 2017 No.10080348 File: 70 KB, 645x729, 1500087208835.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 28 07:38:49 2017 No.10080806 maybe there are a lot of pages within those 300 pages