How long does it take to read Holes (Holes #1)?
by Louis Sachar
4h 16m
64,075 words at 250 a minute
At 30 minutes a day, you would finish in about 9 days.
That is 9 sessions with Holes (Holes #1).
45 minutes a day would finish it in about 6 days.
How we worked this out
Holes (Holes #1) is about 64,075 words, estimated from its 233 pages at about 275 words a page. At 250 words a minute, that comes to 4 hours 16 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 Holes (Holes #1), we will replace this estimate with the time they actually took.
Holes (Holes #1) at a glance
- Pages
- 233
- Author
- Louis Sachar
- Series
- Holes, book 1
- Genre
- young-adult
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