How to use Amazon's Text Stats

February 4, 2012 7:20 PM

How do I use Amazon's Text Stats feature to find a book's word count?

I'd like to find the word count for some of the books I've read. This old Ask Mefi question indicates that books with the Search Inside feature on Amazon can do just that by looking at the text stats. The catch is I can't figure out how to actually find the text stats section.

Part of me thinks that Amazon discontinued text stats, but this current Amazon help page mentions it. And the link to the text stats of Profiles in Courage from that earlier Ask Mefi question still works.

So please walk me step-by-step through the process. If, by chance, text stats have been discontinued let me know if there are any other websites that give word counts. Thanks.

posted by John Frum to Writing & Language (4 answers total)

Best answer: There is a link on each book's page under the "Inside This Book"/"New".
posted by lee at 7:54 PM on February 4, 2012

Best answer: It's below Reviews.
posted by lee at 7:56 PM on February 4, 2012

Response by poster: Thanks, lee! I see it now.

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card was messing me up. It has the "Search Inside" feature, but doesn't have text stats. Now that I know exactly how to find it, every other book I've checked has had text stats. Of course, I had to pick the odd one that's the exception.
posted by John Frum at 4:33 AM on February 5, 2012

Here's the word count for Ender's Game.
posted by Ms. Next at 6:15 AM on February 5, 2012