How long does it take to read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?
by Douglas Adams
3h 18m
49,500 words at 250 a minute
At 30 minutes a day, you would finish in about 7 days.
That is 7 sessions with The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Read it with the Guild45 minutes a day would finish it in about 5 days.
This estimate uses a representative 180-page edition. Page counts can differ between editions, formats, and printings.
How many words is The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is about 49,500 words, estimated from its 180 pages at about 275 words a page. At 250 words a minute, that comes to 3 hours 18 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 Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?
- Catalog page count
- 180
- Edition ISBN
- 9780330491198
- Author
- Douglas Adams
- Series
- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, book 1
- Genre
- fiction
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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