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Who Loves OOTP?

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How many words is too many words? For you, as a reader, what length of books do you typically read? Do you tend to read shorter works, perhaps in the neighborhood of 60,000? Or do you enjoy longer works? Upwards of 130,000 words (or more)? Industry standards have been in place for books according to genre. It's rare that any book (fantasy is the exception) will be accepted by an agent for consideration if it's over 100,000-ish. For example, consider the Harry Potter  series. Kids' books, right? So, no way can a kid's book be more than 50,000-60,000 words. Right? What kid can read anything greater than that? Well, pretty much all of them, apparently, considering the word counts of the books in the series: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone – 76,944 words Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets – 85,141 words Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban – 107,253 words Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – 190,637 words Harry Potter and the Order