
How long does it take to read I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings?
by Maya Angelou
4h 31m
67,650 words at 250 a minute
At 30 minutes a day, you would finish in about 10 days.
That is 9 sessions with I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
Read it with the Guild45 minutes a day would finish it in about 7 days.
This estimate uses a representative 246-page edition. Page counts can differ between editions, formats, and printings.
How many words is I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings?
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is about 67,650 words, estimated from its 246 pages at about 275 words a page. At 250 words a minute, that comes to 4 hours 31 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 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings?
- Catalog page count
- 246
- Edition ISBN
- 9780553279375
- Author
- Maya Angelou
- Series
- Maya Angelou's Autobiography
- Genre
- non-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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