How long does it take to read Infinite Jest?
by David Foster Wallace
19h 57m
299,200 words at 250 a minute
At 30 minutes a day, you would finish in about 6 weeks.
That is 40 sessions with Infinite Jest.
Read it with the Guild45 minutes a day would finish it in about 4 weeks.
This estimate uses a representative 1,088-page edition. Page counts can differ between editions, formats, and printings.
How many words is Infinite Jest?
Infinite Jest is about 299,200 words, estimated from its 1,088 pages at about 275 words a page. At 250 words a minute, that comes to 19 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 Infinite Jest?
- Catalog page count
- 1,088
- Edition ISBN
- 9780316921176
- Author
- David Foster Wallace
- 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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