How long does it take to read Message in a Bottle?
by Nicholas Sparks
6h 16m
94,050 words at 250 a minute
At 30 minutes a day, you would finish in about 13 days.
That is 13 sessions with Message in a Bottle.
45 minutes a day would finish it in about 9 days.
How we worked this out
Message in a Bottle is about 94,050 words, estimated from its 342 pages at about 275 words a page. At 250 words a minute, that comes to 6 hours 16 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 Message in a Bottle, we will replace this estimate with the time they actually took.
Message in a Bottle at a glance
- Pages
- 342
- Author
- Nicholas Sparks
- Genre
- romance
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