
How long does it take to read Cross Stitch?
by Diana Gabaldon
15h 50m
237,600 words at 250 a minute
At 30 minutes a day, you would finish in about 5 weeks.
That is 32 sessions with Cross Stitch.
Read it with the Guild45 minutes a day would finish it in about 3 weeks.
This estimate uses a representative 864-page edition. Page counts can differ between editions, formats, and printings.
How many words is Cross Stitch?
Cross Stitch is about 237,600 words, estimated from its 864 pages at about 275 words a page. At 250 words a minute, that comes to 15 hours 50 minutes.
We use 250 words a minute, not the 300 most calculators assume. A 2019 meta-analysis of 190 studies puts silent adult reading nearer 238 for non-fiction and 260 for fiction.
How many pages is Cross Stitch?
- Catalog page count
- 864
- Edition ISBN
- 9780099911708
- Author
- Diana Gabaldon
- Series
- Outlander, book 1
- Genre
- history, historical fiction, biography
These details come from the ReadersGuild catalog. Look up this edition on Google Books. The word count is estimated from pages, not counted from the text. Introductions, notes, and layout can affect the estimate.
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