How long does it take to read The 4-Hour Workweek?
by Timothy Ferriss
5h 39m
84,700 words at 250 a minute
At 30 minutes a day, you would finish in about 12 days.
That is 11 sessions with The 4-Hour Workweek.
45 minutes a day would finish it in about 8 days.
How we worked this out
The 4-Hour Workweek is about 84,700 words, estimated from its 308 pages at about 275 words a page. At 250 words a minute, that comes to 5 hours 39 minutes.
Most reading-time sites default to 300 words a minute. The best evidence we could find, a 2019 meta-analysis of 190 studies by Marc Brysbaert, puts silent adult reading of English prose closer to 238 words a minute for non-fiction and 260 for fiction. We use 250. It is slower than the number you will see elsewhere, and it is closer to how people actually read.
This is still a model, not a measurement. When enough ReadersGuild readers have finished The 4-Hour Workweek, we will replace this estimate with the time they actually took.
The 4-Hour Workweek at a glance
- Pages
- 308
- Author
- Timothy Ferriss
- Genre
- non-fiction
Knowing the number is the easy part.
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