
How long does it take to read Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly?
by Anthony Bourdain
5h 43m
85,800 words at 250 a minute
At 30 minutes a day, you would finish in about 12 days.
That is 11 sessions with Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly.
Read it with the Guild45 minutes a day would finish it in about 8 days.
This estimate uses a representative 312-page edition. Page counts can differ between editions, formats, and printings.
How many words is Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly?
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly is about 85,800 words, estimated from its 312 pages at about 275 words a page. At 250 words a minute, that comes to 5 hours 43 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 Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly?
- Catalog page count
- 312
- Edition ISBN
- 9780060899226
- Author
- Anthony Bourdain
- 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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