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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 6372513" data-attributes="member: 2525">Or you could strawman the argument and pretend page count had been mentioned when it had not been mentioned.I am in the fashion industry.  Resin applied to fabrics (and it's essentially the same resin being applied to paper) increases weight by a lot.  A shiny piece of paper can weigh a lot more than a matte piece of paper.  A heavy pulp page can weigh a lot more than a newspaper pulp page, etc..  WEIGHT of a book is not necessarily in any way tied to quantity of content.  I have some children's books that are 12 pages long that weigh as much as a 400 page paperback book. It's just a nonsense criteria to judge a book literally by it's weight.Now page count, that has at least a lot more correlation to quantity of content.  But I was not responding to a post that mentioned, or even hinted at, page count.</blockquote>