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Originally Posted by FanciFreez
Just curious how long it takes for you devoted folks and bookworms lol. here to read a average book? average being 350 pages ..I know there are a lot of varibles, but curious of other enthusiasts habits of reading books, speed, time etc..
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A paperback has 2400 characters a page on average. I've used this average to calculate the length of the books I have in Calibre, using the Count Pages plugin.
The KPW2 tells me that I will need about 9 hours to finish a book that has been counted to be 350 pages. This means I'll read about 38 pages an hour. As I read about 1-2 hours a day, I'll take 1,5 as an average, meaning that I'll read about 57 pages a day.
It comes down to it that a book of 350 pages will take me about 6.1 days to finish, on average, assuming I decide to actually read, which I don't always do. (This year, I've read less than I would normally do.)
Note that Count Pages skips whitespace, title pages, illustrations, and so on; a 350 page book according to Count Pages would probably be 375-400 pages as a real paperback. There aren't many paperbacks that start on page one with the first character and then just present a wall of text, without even a single line of whitespace, right through to the end
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Originally Posted by ProfCrash
It depends if I have a toddler near by or not.
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So, you sit in a chair, reading away happily, and suddenly... *poof!* There's a toddler there that slows you down, and after some time, it's gone again?
Cool.
You really must send a call to the Ghostbusters