How long does it take to read The Ocean at the End of the Lane?
by Neil Gaiman
3h 19m
49,775 words at 250 a minute
At 30 minutes a day, you would finish in about 7 days.
That is 7 sessions with The Ocean at the End of the Lane.
45 minutes a day would finish it in about 5 days.
How we worked this out
The Ocean at the End of the Lane is about 49,775 words, estimated from its 181 pages at about 275 words a page. At 250 words a minute, that comes to 3 hours 19 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 Ocean at the End of the Lane, we will replace this estimate with the time they actually took.
The Ocean at the End of the Lane at a glance
- Pages
- 181
- Author
- Neil Gaiman
- Genre
- fiction
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