How long does it take to read Gone with the Wind?
by Margaret Mitchell
19h 1m
285,175 words at 250 a minute
At 30 minutes a day, you would finish in about 6 weeks.
That is 38 sessions with Gone with the Wind.
45 minutes a day would finish it in about 4 weeks.
How we worked this out
Gone with the Wind is about 285,175 words, estimated from its 1,037 pages at about 275 words a page. At 250 words a minute, that comes to 19 hours 1 minute.
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 Gone with the Wind, we will replace this estimate with the time they actually took.
Gone with the Wind at a glance
- Pages
- 1,037
- Author
- Margaret Mitchell
- Genre
- fiction
Knowing the number is the easy part.
The hours are the hard part, and they are easier with company. ReadersGuild is where people read Gone with the Wind alongside each other, one session at a time.
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