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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
Interesting. I don't think many of us read at 1500 WPM but what do I know. My mind is still boggling from the idea of reading 1000 pages in 8 hours while subvocalizing and appreciating the nuances.
Helen
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Helen:
Nope, you're right, s/he said "1,000 pages." That is uber-fast. I'm an extremely fast reader, by anyone's standards, and I couldn't do that. If that's printed pages of the average fiction novel, that would be 325,000 words in eight hours, or 40,625 words/hour or 677 wpm. However, I don't think I've ever finished a thousand-page novel in 8 hours, but according to alleged tests, I read about that fast. So--who knows?
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S/he said, "1,000 lines," not 1,000 pages. A "line" could mean anything. I mean, a Kindle "line?" (60 chars on average, including spaces), a printed 6"x9" line? I'm sure this gets discussed somewhere later on this thread, but as I've just dropped in, I thought I'd mention that as I just read it, it's lines--not pages. Not remotely the same thing.
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Hitch