
How long does it take to read Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog?
by John Grogan
5h 20m
80,025 words at 250 a minute
At 30 minutes a day, you would finish in about 11 days.
That is 11 sessions with Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog.
Read it with the Guild45 minutes a day would finish it in about 8 days.
This estimate uses a representative 291-page edition. Page counts can differ between editions, formats, and printings.
How many words is Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog?
Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog is about 80,025 words, estimated from its 291 pages at about 275 words a page. At 250 words a minute, that comes to 5 hours 20 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 Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog?
- Catalog page count
- 291
- Edition ISBN
- 9780739461198
- Author
- John Grogan
- 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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