How long does it take to read Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince?
by J.K. Rowling
11h 57m
179,300 words at 250 a minute
At 30 minutes a day, you would finish in about 3 weeks.
That is 24 sessions with Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
Read it with the Guild45 minutes a day would finish it in about 2 weeks.
This estimate uses a representative 652-page edition. Page counts can differ between editions, formats, and printings.
How many words is Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince?
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is about 179,300 words, estimated from its 652 pages at about 275 words a page. At 250 words a minute, that comes to 11 hours 57 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 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince?
- Catalog page count
- 652
- Edition ISBN
- 9780439785969
- Author
- J.K. Rowling
- Series
- Harry Potter, book 6
- 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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