How long does it take to read Perfect Chemistry?
by Simone Elkeles
6h 45m
101,200 words at 250 a minute
At 30 minutes a day, you would finish in about 2 weeks.
That is 14 sessions with Perfect Chemistry.
45 minutes a day would finish it in about 9 days.
How we worked this out
Perfect Chemistry is about 101,200 words, estimated from its 368 pages at about 275 words a page. At 250 words a minute, that comes to 6 hours 45 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 Perfect Chemistry, we will replace this estimate with the time they actually took.
Perfect Chemistry at a glance
- Pages
- 368
- Author
- Simone Elkeles
- Series
- Perfect Chemistry, book 1
- Genre
- romance
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