
How long does it take to read Me Talk Pretty One Day?
by David Sedaris
4h 59m
74,800 words at 250 a minute
At 30 minutes a day, you would finish in about 10 days.
That is 10 sessions with Me Talk Pretty One Day.
Read it with the Guild45 minutes a day would finish it in about 7 days.
This estimate uses a representative 272-page edition. Page counts can differ between editions, formats, and printings.
How many words is Me Talk Pretty One Day?
Me Talk Pretty One Day is about 74,800 words, estimated from its 272 pages at about 275 words a page. At 250 words a minute, that comes to 4 hours 59 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 Me Talk Pretty One Day?
- Catalog page count
- 272
- Edition ISBN
- 9780349113913
- Author
- David Sedaris
- 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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