How long does it take to read The Bourne Identity?
by Robert Ludlum
10h 23m
155,650 words at 250 a minute
At 30 minutes a day, you would finish in about 3 weeks.
That is 21 sessions with The Bourne Identity.
45 minutes a day would finish it in about 2 weeks.
How we worked this out
The Bourne Identity is about 155,650 words, estimated from its 566 pages at about 275 words a page. At 250 words a minute, that comes to 10 hours 23 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 Bourne Identity, we will replace this estimate with the time they actually took.
The Bourne Identity at a glance
- Pages
- 566
- Author
- Robert Ludlum
- Series
- Jason Bourne, book 1
- Genre
- mystery, thriller, crime
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