Cover of Love, Theoretically
Reading time

How long does it take to read Love, Theoretically?

by Ali Hazelwood

At an average pace

7h 8m

106,975 words at 250 a minute

At 30 minutes a day, you would finish in about 2 weeks.

That is 14 sessions with Love, Theoretically.

How fast do you read?
30

45 minutes a day would finish it in about 10 days.

How we worked this out

Love, Theoretically is about 106,975 words, estimated from its 389 pages at about 275 words a page. At 250 words a minute, that comes to 7 hours 8 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 Love, Theoretically, we will replace this estimate with the time they actually took.

Love, Theoretically at a glance

Pages
389
Author
Ali Hazelwood
Genre
romance

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