
How long does it take to read The Golden Compass?
by Philip Pullman
7h 19m
109,725 words at 250 a minute
At 30 minutes a day, you would finish in about 2 weeks.
That is 15 sessions with The Golden Compass.
Read it with the Guild45 minutes a day would finish it in about 10 days.
This estimate uses a representative 399-page edition. Page counts can differ between editions, formats, and printings.
How many words is The Golden Compass?
The Golden Compass is about 109,725 words, estimated from its 399 pages at about 275 words a page. At 250 words a minute, that comes to 7 hours 19 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 The Golden Compass?
- Catalog page count
- 399
- Edition ISBN
- 9780679879244
- Author
- Philip Pullman
- Series
- His Dark Materials, book 1
- Genre
- fantasy, paranormal
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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