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| From | Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> |
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| Newsgroups | alt.fan.harry-potter, alt.fantasy, rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.books.childrens, alt.magick, alt.paranormal.spells.hexes.magic |
| Subject | Re: International Harry Potter Day |
| Date | 2026-05-06 17:55 -0700 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <10tgnu5$1ka25$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
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On 5/6/2026 7:11 AM, Michael F. Stemper wrote: > On 05/05/2026 23.17, Steve Hayes wrote: >> On Tue, 5 May 2026 08:13:40 -0500, "Michael F. Stemper" >> <michael.stemper@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> On 03/05/2026 12.59, Steve Hayes wrote: >>> >>>> I must say I also liked the earlier ones better than the later ones. >>>> Apart from anything else they kept getting longer and longer. >>> >>> For a while, then their lengths dipped. >>> >>> Per the ISFDB, the first British publications of the Harry Potter >>> books had the following page counts: >>> 1 223 >>> 2 251 >>> 3 317 >>> 4 636 >>> 5 766 >>> 6 607 >>> 7 607 >>> >>> They didn't get as short as the first three, but it wasn't a monotonic >>> increase. >> >> Do they give word counts? > > No, they don't. > >> Mine are the Bloomsbury editions, but I suspect different editions >> might give different page counts. > > I suspect that as well. That is why I specifically used the first > British publication (Bloomsbury) for all seven. Apples to apples. > But! But! That's actually the correct way to do it!!! No one on the internet is allowed do things correctly!!! :P -- I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky dirty old man.
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Re: International Harry Potter Day The True Melissa <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> - 2026-05-02 11:10 -0400
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Re: International Harry Potter Day Titus G <noone@nowhere.com> - 2026-05-03 15:09 +1200
Re: International Harry Potter Day Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2026-05-03 19:59 +0200
Re: International Harry Potter Day Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> - 2026-05-04 09:26 -0700
Re: International Harry Potter Day The True Melissa <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> - 2026-05-04 13:51 -0400
Re: International Harry Potter Day Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2026-05-05 06:36 +0200
Re: International Harry Potter Day The True Melissa <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> - 2026-05-05 07:30 -0400
Re: International Harry Potter Day David Dalton <dalton@nfld.com> - 2026-05-05 10:27 -0230
Re: International Harry Potter Day The True Melissa <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> - 2026-05-05 09:37 -0400
Re: International Harry Potter Day David Dalton <dalton@nfld.com> - 2026-05-05 18:09 -0230
Re: International Harry Potter Day Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2026-05-05 15:03 +0200
Re: International Harry Potter Day The True Melissa <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> - 2026-05-05 09:39 -0400
Re: International Harry Potter Day Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2026-05-05 09:30 -0700
Re: International Harry Potter Day BCFD 36 <bcfd36@cruzio.com> - 2026-06-01 10:03 -0700
Re: International Harry Potter Day The True Melissa <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> - 2026-06-01 13:11 -0400
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Re: International Harry Potter Day kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2026-06-01 17:38 -0400
Re: International Harry Potter Day BCFD 36 <bcfd36@cruzio.com> - 2026-06-01 15:56 -0700
Re: International Harry Potter Day Louis Epstein <le@lekno.ws> - 2026-06-01 14:23 +0000
Re: International Harry Potter Day BCFD 36 <bcfd36@cruzio.com> - 2026-06-01 10:13 -0700
Re: International Harry Potter Day Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> - 2026-06-02 08:25 -0700
Re: International Harry Potter Day Louis Epstein <le@lekno.ws> - 2026-06-05 03:00 +0000
Re: International Harry Potter Day Cryptoengineer <petertrei@gmail.com> - 2026-05-04 22:55 -0400
Re: International Harry Potter Day ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2026-05-05 03:01 +0000
Re: International Harry Potter Day Louis Epstein <le@lekno.ws> - 2026-06-01 14:27 +0000
Re: International Harry Potter Day "Michael F. Stemper" <michael.stemper@gmail.com> - 2026-05-05 08:13 -0500
Re: International Harry Potter Day Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2026-05-06 06:17 +0200
Re: International Harry Potter Day "Michael F. Stemper" <michael.stemper@gmail.com> - 2026-05-06 09:11 -0500
Re: International Harry Potter Day Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2026-05-06 17:55 -0700
Re: International Harry Potter Day "Michael F. Stemper" <michael.stemper@gmail.com> - 2026-05-08 07:48 -0500
Re: International Harry Potter Day Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> - 2026-05-06 09:18 -0700
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