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I bought the fourth book in the Twilight series yesterday and was surprised to find it clocks in at nearly 800 pages. One really good thing about this and the Harry Potter series is that they've taught kids not to be afraid of gigantic books, even to revel in them. I certainly never read anything even close to 800 pages until high school, when I discovered Stephen King. Nowadays you see 10-year-olds lugging around novels as big as they are. That has to bode well for the future of both the publishing industry and the American attention span.