How long does it take to read Dragonfly in Amber?
by Diana Gabaldon
13h 37m
204,325 words at 250 a minute
At 30 minutes a day, you would finish in about 4 weeks.
That is 27 sessions with Dragonfly in Amber.
45 minutes a day would finish it in about 3 weeks.
How we worked this out
Dragonfly in Amber is about 204,325 words, estimated from its 743 pages at about 275 words a page. At 250 words a minute, that comes to 13 hours 37 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 Dragonfly in Amber, we will replace this estimate with the time they actually took.
Dragonfly in Amber at a glance
- Pages
- 743
- Author
- Diana Gabaldon
- Series
- Outlander, book 2
- Genre
- history, historical fiction, biography
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