How long does it take to read The Lost Symbol?
by Dan Brown
9h 20m
139,975 words at 250 a minute
At 30 minutes a day, you would finish in about 3 weeks.
That is 19 sessions with The Lost Symbol.
45 minutes a day would finish it in about 13 days.
How we worked this out
The Lost Symbol is about 139,975 words, estimated from its 509 pages at about 275 words a page. At 250 words a minute, that comes to 9 hours 20 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 The Lost Symbol, we will replace this estimate with the time they actually took.
The Lost Symbol at a glance
- Pages
- 509
- Author
- Dan Brown
- Series
- Robert Langdon, book 3
- Genre
- mystery, thriller, crime
Knowing the number is the easy part.
The hours are the hard part, and they are easier with company. ReadersGuild is where people read The Lost Symbol alongside each other, one session at a time.
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