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Words and pages per chapter in a Drupal book

Pro Drupal Development, at 571 pages for 23 chapters (page count excludes introduction and appendices), averages 24.8 pages per chapter.

It also has, as a very rough estimate, about 420 words per page without graphics or diagrams.

The Definitive Guide to Django has 172,988

Words:
Lines: 8098
Over 538 pages. Including everything. For an average of 321.5 words per page.

Anyhow, around 8,000 words per chapter seems right.

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