IWasBored
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When I was a kid I used to be scared off by books that were over 300 pages because I thought they would take me forever to read. The lengthier novels that I read at the time had taken me forever to read, but then I read some books over that particular page count that I actually liked, and realized that the number of pages has far less to do with the amount of time I'll spend reading it. Much more a factor is how much I like the book, and how easy it is to get into the story/hard it is to put down. Given that a large portion of the novels I've read lately are part of trilogies, I'm not so much intimidated by 1000 page books when I know I'm coming up on that number after the series is over. The only real downside in my mind now is small, thick paperbacks that are hard to hold open without wrecking the spine and beating them up some.