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Between 2 days or 2 months. Depends on the book and on my mood. Some books I just can't put away and will be finished within a few days, other books just don't read as fast, or I might not be in a reading mood. I usually read only 30 minutes before I drop off to sleep, with some infrequent minutes here and there.
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By my estimates I'd guess roughly 5 hours. That's if it's not a real tough read and I'm into it.
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30 pages per hour or more. Because I'm always backtracking and reading parts at least three times.
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![]() I have no idea how many hours it takes me to read a 350 page book. Because I haven't the slightest clue how many hours I read in a day/week/month. I just know I average about 3-5 books per month. The book determines the speed, not me. ![]() Last edited by DiapDealer; 10-10-2013 at 01:23 PM. |
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^This
Some books are a faster read for me. I read a lot of non-fiction books. These take quite a while longer because I have a different reason for reading them. One is entertainment, the other in addition to being for entertainment, it is to learn something. For those I take more time because I read slower and re-read a lot of passages. On average, a 350-page novel would take me about a week provided I get in my 1 hour a day. |
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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 ![]() 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 ![]() Last edited by Katsunami; 10-10-2013 at 03:05 PM. |
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How are we calculating page numbers?
If it is ADE page numbers (approximately 366 words per page) then 3-8 hours. YA, Urban fantasy, light mysteries, favorite authors around 3 hours. For Non fiction 6-8 hours usually. Books that make me pause and think, or books that are vaguely discomfiting, 6-8 hours. Paper book pages or GoodReads number of pages are higher (approximately 250 words per page for paperbacks) so of course one reads a page about 35-40% faster. |
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This thread from 2009 might be of interest.
I just took this test again, and my reading speed was 370wpm and 100% comprehension. In 2009 it was 411wpm and again, 100%. So I'm around 400wpm, what that web site calls an 'auditory' reader, which seems right to me. So a 350 page novel, being around 150,000 words takes me about 6 hours to read. Hmm... that seems a little slower than my reading record shows. So perhaps when reading my books instead of their test text I'm a bit faster. |
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Speed: about 300 WPM (I think I'd be faster when reading a "normal" text, that is not littered with percentages, abbreviations and stuff between parentheses.) Comprehension: 100% They state: Quote:
If one page contains 2400 characters (it does, because I set it as such in the Count Pages plugin), and the average word is 6 characters (I remember I read that somewhere, a long time ago), then there are 400 words on each of my pages. A book of 350 pages would have 140.000 words. This seems to be quite close to pdurrants guesstimate of 150K worlds for such a novel. Using the above test as a measure, it would take me 6.22 hours to read such a book. That seems about right. Normally I'm slower, because I read a lot of fantasy; often flipping back to take a look at maps, and such, and I don't normally read "actively", to obtain the highest speed I can. I read much more leisurely. I think the Kindle is about right with its 9 hours guesstimate (when reading leisurely), and the site is also about right with the outcome of 6.2 hours when reading actively. Last edited by Katsunami; 10-10-2013 at 03:49 PM. |
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Hmmm... I read almost twice as fast on a computer screen as I do with paper or an ebook reader. 522 WPM from brainbench with 95% comprehension, and I was really trying more for comprehension. I can't see myself approaching this in an ebook or paper book.
I can't get the link to work for the test mentioned, but most online tests I get 480 WPM with again 95% comprehension. Obviously my comprehension is not all it should be. Still though I can read faster on a computer screen, I don't get that curled up with a good book comfort thing. Helen |
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Isn't it amazing, given the amount of reading I do - that I don't actually know how long it takes me to read a book. I can speed read - but don't enjoy doing it - I much prefer to savour the story.
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I was told there would be no math.
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There isn't any. Just some trivial calculations.
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well, it took me between 2.5 and 3 hours to read The Ocean At The End Of The Lane, which, I am told, has 181 pages.
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