How long does it take to read The Firm (Penguin Readers, Level 5)?
by Robin A.H. Waterfield
1h 23m
20,625 words at 250 a minute
At 30 minutes a day, you would finish in about 3 days.
That is 3 sessions with The Firm (Penguin Readers, Level 5).
45 minutes a day would finish it in about 2 days.
How we worked this out
The Firm (Penguin Readers, Level 5) is about 20,625 words, estimated from its 75 pages at about 275 words a page. At 250 words a minute, that comes to 1 hour 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 Firm (Penguin Readers, Level 5), we will replace this estimate with the time they actually took.
The Firm (Penguin Readers, Level 5) at a glance
- Pages
- 75
- Author
- Robin A.H. Waterfield
- Genre
- mystery, thriller, crime
Knowing the number is the easy part.
The hours are the hard part, and they are easier with company. ReadersGuild is where people read The Firm (Penguin Readers, Level 5) alongside each other, one session at a time.
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