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[open] Is a Wattpad book valid? How to cope with it?
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You don't need to login to Wattpad to read stories. For some reason if you hit their landing page and click "start reading" a login prompt appears, which is (probably intentional) misleading UX design. If you click "Browse" in the top left or go the story page directly, you can simply start reading.The tricky thing with Wattpad is that they don't display a word count anywhere, and there's some annoying math involved to figure out if the story is "novel length" based on the "reading time" stat.
thanks Gem! I just added this one, which has the label 'Completed'. I left the page count empty and added the amount of chapters in the description: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...Any tips wrt page count? Or ASIN?
Linde wrote: "Any tips wrt page count? Or ASIN?"Page count - I've used a browser plugin to get Wattpad word counts for many years and then calculate the # pages (word count/250) Prior to that I just contacted the author and asked for the word count since they have that metric in their account. In the example you linked I get a word count of 225.1k which based on the formula I use (word 225.1k/250) would yield 901 pages.
ASIN? It's free online fanfiction, why would it have an ASIN? It has nothing to do with Amazon nor does it have an ISBN 10 that can be used in place of an Amazon identifier.
Tal, what's the name of the extension and what browser is it available for?
I've found this "reading time calculator": https://www.omnicalculator.com/everyd...I'll start using that and use 'average' reading speed.
I've never logged in on Wattpad, but sometimes I went there for a request. Now I won't let me continue anymore without a login. The pop-up below is not disappearing anymore. "Join Wattpad
Be part of a global community of readers and writers, all connected through the power of story."
How to continue? I want to help a requestor of a very old one (July 15th 2023): https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Try accessing the site using incognito mode on your browser. Could also try clearing browser cache.
I'm working on a request from Wattpad: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
I've read before that a book where you need to login is not allowed, but then the Author has many books already registered on Goodreads. So how to cope with this one?
Greetings, Linde