How long does it take to read It?
by Stephen King
19h 59m
299,750 words at 250 a minute
At 30 minutes a day, you would finish in about 6 weeks.
That is 40 sessions with It.
45 minutes a day would finish it in about 4 weeks.
How we worked this out
It is about 299,750 words, estimated from its 1,090 pages at about 275 words a page. At 250 words a minute, that comes to 19 hours 59 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 It, we will replace this estimate with the time they actually took.
It at a glance
- Pages
- 1,090
- Author
- Stephen King
- Genre
- fiction
Knowing the number is the easy part.
The hours are the hard part, and they are easier with company. ReadersGuild is where people read It alongside each other, one session at a time.
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